Past Programs (page 2)

How Masonry Construction Transitioned to Steel, 1870s-1890s

Donald Friedman, Carol Willis

Cover of Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling, by Richard Haw. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Engineering America: John Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge

Cover image of the book "From Ascending Rooms to Express Elevators: A History of the Passenger Elevator in the 19th Century" by Lee E. Gray. Elevator World Inc, 2002.

Elevator Office Buildings, New York and Chicago from the 1870s

Lee Gray, Carol Willis

Santa Fe Elevator, Damen and the Chicago River. Courtesy of Thomas Leslie.

Chicago’s Other Skyscrapers: Grain Elevators and the City, 1838-1957

Thomas Leslie, Carol Willis

Curator’s Tour

The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy

Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

Brooklyn: The Once and Future City

Thomas J. Campanella

Book cover of "The North Atlantic Cities"

The North Atlantic Cities

Gordon Bunshaft: Building Corporate Modernism

Book cover of "Saving America's Cities" by Lizbeth Cohen

Saving America’s Cities: How New York State Reshaped New York City Since the 1950s

Lizabeth Cohen, Lynne B. Sagalyn, Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Carol Willis

Book cover of "The Grandest Madison Square Garden" by Suzanne Hinman

The Grandest Madison Square Garden

Photograph of Leslie Robertson

JUST DO IT: Documentaries and Documenting Modern Architecture and Engineering

James Sanders, Leslie E. Robertson, Richard Jr. Roth

THE PLAZA: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel

Cover of Washington Square South Slum Clearance Plan Under Title I of the Housing Act of 1949

Architects, Developers, and Title 1

Marci M. Clark, Lynne B. Sagalyn

Prodigy of the Depression: NYCHA is born

Prodigy of the Depression: NYCHA Is Born and Changes the Housing Model in New York

Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Leonardo Tamargo

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