Archtober's Festival Itineraries offer a curated selection of festival events, handpicked by a thought leader, editor, or creative mind we admire in New York City. This week's itinerary comes from architecture and design editor and curator, Julia van den Hout. She also serves as principal of Original Copy, a New York-based editorial and curatorial studio established in 2014, and Senior Architecture Curator at Art Omi, a 120-acre sculpture and architecture park in Upstate New York. 

Here are Julia’s must-see happenings through the end of the festival in and around the city! Don’t wait to join her and start planning your own itinerary!

1. Learning from Oslo: The New Life of Eero Saarinen's Former US Embassy on October 23

I'm always interested in what happens to great buildings after their original use disappears. Saarinen's former US Embassy in Oslo has been given a new life through an incredible preservation and adaptive reuse effort, and this conversation brings together both the architects and preservation thinkers behind it—a great opportunity to think about how we preserve the past without freezing it in place. Join the talk!

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2. Art and Architecture Tour on October 24

Grace Farms is one of those places where architecture, landscape, art, and the experience of moving through a site are completely intertwined. This tour goes beyond the SANAA-designed River building to look at the artworks, materials, landscape, and newer interventions across the property. And in late October, the surrounding landscape should be at peak fall color—a stunning backdrop for the tour. Explore the Grace Farms campus!

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3. Make Your Own Pop-up Book with Kelli Anderson on October 24

As an editor, I love nothing more than seeing ideas come together as a book. Kelli Anderson's workshop gets into the mechanics of translating a flat sheet of paper into a three-dimensional, interactive object—part graphic design, part architecture, part engineering. And you get to make something yourself, a great way to spend an afternoon during Archtober. Make your own pop-up book!

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4. CoHousing in the Hudson Valley: Building Community Then and Now on October 24

How can architecture actually help create community, rather than simply giving us a nice place to live? This workshop looks at cohousing through the lens of the Hudson Valley and asks what shared resources, collective living, and intentional communities might look like today. Participate in the workshop.

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5. Judd Foundation Presents Guided Visit at 101 Spring Street on October 28

Donald Judd resisted the boundaries between art, architecture, and design, approaching space simply as something to be shaped and made. At 101 Spring Street, that idea comes together in a particularly vivid way: the building, Judd's interventions, and the works he lived with are all part of a single spatial experience. This guided visit offers the chance to look closely at how he transformed the building. Explore the Judd Foundation.

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6. An Archival Séance: The Critical Record on October 29

An archival séance! What's not to love? But more important is the question: who gets included in the architectural record, who gets left out, and how do we reinterpret the archives we inherit? I'm particularly interested in the idea of treating the archive not as a definitive history, but as something that can—and should—be questioned. Experience the performance!