Events

​For one evening, WAI Architecture Think Tank transforms Van Alen into a living postcolonial collage of books, artifacts, food, loudreadings, lectures, and performances.

Join us for our annual open house to learn more about Van Alen, meet your neighbors, and engage with our upcoming exhibition Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design.

Shannon Mattern (Metropolitan New York Library Council) leads a discussion around how archives determine what’s worthy of collection and preservation, and the role of the architectural archive in an age of extractive technologies.

Van Alen is delighted to host the fourth edition of the PUBLIC ART PARTY, a bi-annual community-building event for people working across every part of the public art ecosystem.

Writer and artist Divya Mehra leads an interactive workshop to explore our own personal archives, asking questions about the value of the mundane and what it means to embrace our own archival practice.

Celebrate the release of At the Edge of Where God Built, a new book from Actar Publishers by Ziad Jamaleddine & Makram el Kadi of L.E.FT Architects.

Join the editors to celebrate the latest issue of Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal.

Architect and researcher Marina Otero Verzier, in collaboration with Paula Viliplana de Miguel, conducts a seance-inspired performance that tunes into the spirits of those not present in the archives.

​In collaboration with AIA Brooklyn Housing Committee, Samuel Stein discusses his latest book A Right to Housing?

Farida Abu-Bakare (WXY), Curry J. Hackett, and Tura Cousins Wilson (SOCA) to explore hwhat architects can learn from the people already doing the work of building community.

Join a conversation hosted by Suzanne Lettieri and Anya Sirota, editors of Junior Architects: New Paradigms in Design Education, which examines equity in architecture and design education in the US.

Lola Ben-Alon debuts her new book Material Variance and a site-specific installation by the Natural Materials Lab at Columbia GSAPP.