On Thursday, April 24, we were joined by Georges Teyssot and Cynthia Davidson at the bookstore for a conversation on the latest in the Writing Architecture series, A Topology of Everyday Constellations.
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Van Alen Books is an architecture and design bookstore, event space and public reading room located at Van Alen Institute’s headquarters in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Opened in April 2011, this highly visible storefront space is New York City’s only book emporium and gathering place devoted singularly to architecture and design publications.
Van Alen Books gratefully acknowledges the support of Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and Van Alen Circle members. Van Alen Books is also supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture joined us at the bookstore on April 11 for a discussion to celebrate his firm’s new book Allied Works Architecture | Clyfford Still Museum, a publication showcasing their design for the Denver institution.
On Thursday, April 4 at Van Alen Books, the editors of Project journal joined us for a live interview with designer Caroline O’Donnell of CODA.
On March 7 at Van Alen Books, we celebrated Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World, with author and Inhabitat Architecture Editor Bridgette Meinhold.
![February 28 at the bookstore, we hosted a conversation on Civic Action, a publication generated from the art and urban-planning initiative of the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park that engaged four artists to investigate new strategies for community development in the Long Island City neighborhood.
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We were joined by Noguchi Museum director Jenny Dixon, Socrates Sculpture Park executive director John Hatfield, founding principal of WXY Architecture Claire Weisz, along with Wall Street Journal architecture columnist and “Civic Action” editor Julie Iovine.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3b2e802b99af586afde7c692bd0f6c1f/tumblr_mka7ofyoa21ry3kdro1_1280.jpg)
February 28 at the bookstore, we hosted a conversation on Civic Action, a publication generated from the art and urban-planning initiative of the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park that engaged four artists to investigate new strategies for community development in the Long Island City neighborhood.
On Wednesday, February 13 at Van Alen Books we explored Hong Kong’s dense pedestrian networks through the new publication Cities Without Ground by Jonathan D. Solomon and Adam Frampton, who were joined in conversation by special guest Grahame Shane.
On Wednesday, February 6 at Van Alen Books we celebrated Travis Beck’s “Principles of Ecological Landscape Design,” a new book that digs into the science of designing high-performance, resilient landscapes.
We packed Van Alen Books to capacity last Thursday, January 31, to celebrate Mark Rakatansky’s “Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt,” the latest in the Architecture Words series.
Listen in on our discussion at Van Alen Books about Beyond Zuccotti Park and the privatization of public space, with Lynne Elizabeth, Arthur Eisenberg, Moses Gates, & Quilian Riano.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our first bookstore event of 2013 to hear author Brian Lutz share his vast knowledge of Saarinen’s career as a furniture designer, and to celebrate the newly released “Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman”.
