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In congruence with his spring 2023 course Paul Goldberger will be hosting: At the Parsons Table Series around design and social justice in New York City today. Please join us Thursday, May 11th at 6:30pm for our seventh talk in the series. In this talk Laurie Beckelman and Paul Goldberger will discuss the challenges to both historic preservation and cultural institutions in achieving social justice in the public realm.
Laurie Beckelman first became involved in preservation while working for Kent Barwick at the Municipal Art Society. She continued her career of advocacy, as the executive director of New York Landmarks Conservancy before being appointed to chair the Landmarks Preservation Commission [LPC] in 1990. She speaks about the challenges facing the LPC at this time, such as maintaining itself as a separate agency. When setting her agenda as LPC chair, she emphasized designating Modernism, raising public awareness of preservation, and preserving areas and neighborhoods that had previously been overlooked, such as the Jackson Heights neighborhood in Queens. She also describes the change to working with the New York City Council, after the New York City Board of Estimate was dissolved, and the new issues it raised. She involved the LPC in several high profile cases, including Dvorak House, the African Burial Ground, and the Trans World Airlines Terminal.
This series will be an insightful look into understanding what the future of Urban Life will look like, particularly in New York City. Goldberger and his guests will investigate the state of architecture, design, and planning in New York today. Please register in the provided link to confirm your attendance. The event is open to the public and we welcome anyone who is interested in deepening their understanding of urban architecture design and life.
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Former Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, Laurie Beckelman, shares her insight into building community relations, raising public awareness of preservation, and several important cases that arose during her tenure.
Laurie has worked in the fields of historic preservation, and the development and administration of cultural institutions since the 1980s, is currently a partner in the consulting firm Capalino + Beckelman, as well as the Associate Director of The Shed, a new cultural facility under construction in Hudson Yards. From 1990 through 1994, she was the Chair the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and in the late Nineties, she was Deputy Director for Special Projects for the Guggenheim Foundation, where she was responsible for the proposed Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum at Wall Street and the East River.
Paul Goldberger is the New School's Joseph Urban Professor of Design and the former Architecture Critic for both The New Yorker and The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. One of the nation's most respected architecture critics, he has also won the National Building Museum's Vincent Scully Prize, the President's Medal of the Municipal Art Society of New York, the medal of the American Institute of Architects, and the Medal of Honor of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, he is the author of several books, including BALLPARK: Baseball in the American City, published in 2019 by Alfred A. Knopf; BUILDING ART: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry, published in 2015 by Knopf; Why Architecture Matters, published in 2009 by Yale University Press, and Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, a collection of his architecture essays published in 2009 by Monacelli Press. Paul Goldberger's chronicle of the process of rebuilding Ground Zero, entitled UP FROM ZERO: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, which was published by Random House in the fall of 2004, was named one of The New York Times Notable Books for 2004. An active lecturer on architecture, planning and historic preservation around the country, Paul Goldberger has also served as an advisor on architect selection and design to many organizations and instiututions including the Barack Obama Foundation, the New York Public Library, the Glenstone Museum, and Lincoln Center.
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