There's plenty of architectural inspiration around NYC to help fill up the longer days of summer. For anyone who is curious about what local architecture-related events to fit into your weekly schedules, Archinect and Bustler have compiled a snappy list of noteworthy happenings around town that are not to be missed!

Check back regularly so you don't miss out! Have a look at our latest selection of NYC events.

Rezoning & Development: A Teach-In on the Root Causes of Gentrification | August 9, recommended by Nicholas Korody

Gentrification is often a tricky subject to bring up. Part of the reason for that is the topic is often shrouded by mystification: "It's something that just happens". But it's not something that just happens. Rather, it's the result of very specific policies and tactics, especially rezoning and development. Head to this teach-in to learn more about how gentrification shapes our cities and why.

COOL | Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned City | August 11, recommended by Justine Testado

On hot and humid summer days in the city, most people won't second-guess switching on the air conditioner and letting it run for hours at a time. But as we already know, A/C consumes electricity, and the resulting emissions contribute to climate change and rising global temperatures. Join author and environmentalist Stan Cox, who will lead a discussion and Q&A focusing on the “costs and benefits of New Yorkers' growing reliance on climate control.” 

Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial | Open now until August 21, recommended by Alexander Walter

Installation view of the PolyThread knitted textile pavilion, designed by Jenny E. Sabin, commissioned for Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Photo by Matt Flynn © 2016 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

If you haven't yet paid a visit to Cooper Hewitt Museum’s contemporary design exhibition series, Beauty, it's a good idea to do it soon as the exhibition is drawing to a close later this month. Featuring more than 250 works by 63 international designers, the show is organized around these seven themes: extravagant, intricate, ethereal, transgressive, emergent, elemental, and transformative.

Sharing Models: Manhattanisms | Open now until September 2, recommended by Amelia Taylor-Hochberg

"Magnetic Fields" by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio + Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes, Collage, mixed media on paper.

Within the ongoing debates around affordability and privatization in America’s cities, Storefront invites a host of notable international architects to re-imagine “the commons” in Manhattan. In today’s sharing economy, what does it mean to have, and inhabit, public space? Featuring participants Höweler + Yoon, Leong Leong, SO – IL, Tatiania Bilbao Estudio, TEN Arquitectos and many others, this exhibition runs until September 2.

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