Please join us in congratulating Lynden Miller on receiving this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award, presented annually to the most deserving adjunct instructors across all of CAS. Our department has been lucky to be home to two consecutive winners of this award, as Lynden joins Holly Haff (2023) in earning the well-deserved recognition.
Our URDS program has been very fortunate to have had Lynden as an adjunct faculty member for the past sixteen years. During this time, she has taught a number of popular Special Topics courses for us, with a focus on parks: most notably, The Role of Well-Designed Public Open Space in the City; Creating Successful and Sustainable Public Space; and Parks, Plants, and People. I hope that Lynden will continue teaching our students for many more years to come.
Last night the New York Landmarks Conservancy honored the former 75th Police Precinct Station with a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. This eye-filling work, designed by George Ingram in 1892, evokes both a medieval fortress and a castle inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Today, it has a new life as a men’s homeless shelter and clinic.
Gregory Dietrich Preservation Consulting is proud to have served as the historic tax credit consultant on this award-winning project!
Monday, May 8, 2023 at 6:00 PM In-Person and Virtual Lecture* Advance registration is required
The Institute of Fine Arts 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075 and on Zoom
The recently released volume Duke House and the Making of Modern New York; Lives and Afterlives of a Fifth Avenue Mansion offers an investigation of the history of the edifice which is home of the Institute of Fine Arts since 1959.Edited by Jean-Louis Cohen, Daniella Berman, and Jon Ritter, the publication collects contributions authored by graduates of the Institute, established and emerging scholars, and practitioners to reconstruct the genesis of the Dukes’ home in the context of early 20th century Manhattan, analyzing its design, its construction, its decoration, and its metamorphosis from an elite residence to an educational institution.
Join us on May 8th to celebrate the publication with a presentation by the editors on this collective project and its contribution to the history of New York’s architecture, followed by a conversation with many of the book’s authors! More about the Book Featuring new archival research and previously unpublished photographs and architectural plans, this volume fundamentally revises our understanding of the development of modern New York, focusing on elite domestic architecture within the contexts of social history, urban planning, architecture, interior design, and adaptive re-use. Contributions from emerging and established scholars, art historians, and practitioners offer a multi-faceted analysis of major figures such as Horace Trumbauer, Julian Francis Abele, Robert Venturi, and Richard Kelly. Taking the James B. Duke House, now home to NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, as its point of departure, this collection provides fresh perspectives on domestic spaces, urban forms, and social reforms that shaped early-twentieth century New York into the modern city we know today.
Contributions by Daniella Berman, Mosette Broderick, Alisa Chiles, Grace Chuang, Jean-Louis Cohen, Isabelle Gournay, Christie Mitchell, Theodore Prudon, Jon Ritter, and Matthew Worsnick.
The book is available from Brill. The Editors Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Trained as an architect and an art historian in Paris, Cohen has curated many exhibitions and published more than forty books.
Daniella Berman is an art historian and curator specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art. Trained at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, Berman has contributed to various exhibitions and their publications including Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022).
Jon Ritter is Clinical Professor in the Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture at New York University. President of the Society of Architectural Historian’s New York Chapter, Ritter holds a doctorate from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.
*The program will be presented onsite at the James B. Duke House and live-streamed to those who join us by Zoom. Zoom details will be available upon registration for virtual attendees. All in-person attendees must be in compliance with NYU’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements (fully vaccinated and boosted, once eligible and by NYU’s deadline) and be prepared to present proof of compliance. Please review the University’s COVID guidelines in advance of your visit.
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