Fwd: FW: Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future public programs

 

Dear Madina and June:

 

 Can you please send this information to all NYIT Arch and Design faculty and staff? Please let me know how I can get this information to the students. Thank you, Jennifer

 

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first-ever retrospective devoted to the work of controversial, unorthodox, and prolific architect Eero Saarinen, opens today at the Museum of the City of New York.  I thought your colleagues and students at NYIT might be interested in attending one of our upcoming Saarinen discussions with prominent architects and scholars.  Students, faculty, and staff are eligible for a special program discount, and the Saarinen galleries will be open to all program attendees on the evenings of these talks.

 

Would it be possible to share this event information—listed below and attached as a flyer—with everyone in the School of Architecture & Design?   

 

The programs are priced individually ($6 Museum members; $8 students/faculty/staff and seniors; $12 non-members) and also as a package (reserve for all four programs for the price of three: $18 Museum members; $24 students/faculty/staff and seniors; $36 non-members).  The package rate is listed on the flyer; I accidentally omitted it from the text-only descriptions below.

 

The student discount rate, noted above, can be obtained by any NYIT faculty and staff members.  They should select "student" in the online checkout process or, if calling by telephone, mention their affiliation with NYIT.

 

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

 

All best,

Alyson

 

Alyson Cluck

Communications Associate

Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10029

Telephone: (212) 534-1672, ext. 3396

E-mail: acluck@mcny.org

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Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

Public Programs

 

Thursday • November 12 • 6:30 PM

Meet the Saarinens

 

Join Susan Saarinen, Eero Saarinen's daughter and principal of Saarinen Landscape Architecture, and Mark Coir, a family historian, for an intimate look at the remarkable legacy and fascinating lives of the Saarinens, arguably the preeminent artistic family of the 20th century. $

 

Thursday • November 19 • 6:30 PM

The Legacy of Saarinen's Office

 

While Eero Saarinen's career was cut short by his death in 1961 at age 51, his legacy was sustained by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, the architectural firm headed by two of Saarinen's key office colleagues. Join Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche for a conversation featuring Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Associate Professor, Yale School of Architecture, and curator Donald Albrecht, co-editor of the exhibition catalog Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. The panelists will explore Mr. Roche's extraordinary impact on New York City, from unbuilt proposals to major commissions such as the Ford Foundation and the ongoing expansion of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. $

 

Wednesday • December 2 • 6:30 PM

Preserving 20th-Century Modernism

 

With its emphasis on experimental materials and construction techniques, mid-century modern architecture often poses enormous challenges for owners, developers, and preservationists. Join Andrew S. Dolkart, urban architectural historian and author of Guide to New York City Landmarks (Wiley & Sons, 1998), as he moderates a discussion with Belmont Freeman, founder of Belmont Freeman Architects; Nina Rappaport, chair of DOCOMOMO/New York-Tristate and editor of Constructs, the Yale School of Architecture's magazine; Frank Sanchis, Senior Vice President of the Municipal Art Society; and Theo Prudon, President of DOCOMOMO/US, exploring the preservation of 20th-century architecture as represented by New York-area Saarinen buildings such as the TWA terminal at JFK Airport and Bell Labs (Holmdel). $

 

Tuesday • December 8 • 6:30 PM

Saarinen and the Spirit of Innovation

 

Eero Saarinen designed some of the 20th century's most formally and structurally innovative buildings, from St. Louis's Gateway Arch to the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport. Join Jayne Merkel, a scriptwriter for the film "The Gateway Arch, A Reflection of America" and author of Eero Saarinen (Phaidon, 2005); Cesar Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; and engineer Abba Tor for a program investigating Saarinen's innovations and featuring excerpts from Merkel's film. $

 

Reservations required: Online at www.mcny.org/public-programs/ or call 917.492.3395. $ = $6 Museum members; $8 seniors and students; $12 non-members. A $2 surcharge applies for unreserved, walk-in participants.

 

Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue at 104^th Street

New York, NY 10029

212.534.1672

www.mcny.org