Join us for the reopening of the Center for Architecture! We’re excited to invite you back after an 18-month hiatus for an evening celebrating the launch of two new exhibitions: Cairo Modern and Design Awards 2020-21. October 1 also marks the start of Archtober, New York City’s month-long festival of architecture and design, organized by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with 70+ partner institutions.

We want to celebrate with you safely, so we will be providing outdoor spaces at this event to welcome back our visitors, supporters, and members!

Cairo Modern showcases works by Egyptian modernists from the 1920s to the 1970s, half a century of rich architectural production that complicate our present understanding of global modernism. The exhibition introduces audiences to key architects from the period such as Sayed Karim as well as examples of their works commissioned by the state and the city’s burgeoning bourgeoisie. Modernism in Cairo reflected the aspirations of the new classes that formed after Egypt’s 1919 Revolution who embraced the Modernist house or apartment as the materialization of new notions of class, identity, and modernity.

Design Awards 2020-21 features the winning projects from two competition cycles, exhibited together for the first time. AIANY is excited to celebrate the twenty-four 2021 winning projects and the thirty-five 2020 winning projects.

AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural design by AIANY members and New York City-based architects and work in New York City by architects from around the world. The purpose of the awards program is to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who have achieved design excellence. Awards are given in five categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, Urban Design, and Sustainability. All categories were reviewed by the seven-person jury who establish criteria, evaluate excellence, and determine the awards given for Best in Competition, Honor, Merit, and Citation.

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