ART AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE – FALL 2025 VIDEOS
Coordinators: Debbi Honorf, Sharon Katz, Victor Brener
Art and Practice of Architecture is an art history course that explores all facets of the science, art, and practice of architecture.
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ART AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
In Search of San Juan Hill
Presenter: Sean Khorsandi, Guest Speaker
Presentation Date: September 2, 2025
San Juan Hill was a vibrant and diverse community in Manhattan before it was demolished to make way for Lincoln Center. The densely populated neighborhood was known for its lively cultural scene and various community organizations. Through the lens of available resources, we will learn how the neighborhood came to be, how it not-so-simply vanished, the forces that led to its demise, current scholarship initiatives, and the concept of Social Justice Urbanism.
ART AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
Beaux-Arts Architecture
Presenter: Jim Brook
Presentation Date: September 16, 2025
Beaux-Arts is an architectural style that developed in Europe in the 1830s and was popular until the first half of the 20th century. It had a long run, particularly in New York City. The form served as the setting for the events, people and places of “The Gilded Age.”
This presentation will first set out the characteristics of the Beaux-Art form. It will then look at some of the most iconic Beaux-Arts buildings in NYC. But only some of them. A listing of just the most important such buildings comes close to one hundred. Beaux-Arts is all around us if we only look.