Planning for another week in New York City? If you're curious about where design-inclined folks are gathering around town, Archinect and Bustler have compiled a snappy list of local architecture and design events that are worth checking out. Check back regularly so you don't miss out.

For this week, the School of Visual Arts will host a lecture with “Dirty Furniture” co-founding editor Elizabeth Glickfield and another talk that highlights the untold stories of the people running NYC's waste management systems. B. Alexandra Szerlip will give a talk about her new book about designer Norman Bel Geddes, and you can sign up for an exclusive tour of the St. Patrick's Cathedral renovations led by architect Jeff Murphy. If you haven't seen it, it's the last week for the can't-miss “John Hejduk Works/Jan Palach Memorial” exhibition.

School of Visual Arts Lecture: Elizabeth Glickfield, co-founder and editor of “Dirty Furniture” | April 25

Dirty Furniture Founding editors Pete Maxwell, Anna Bates and Elizabeth Glickfeld. Photo via Kickstarter.

Dirty Furniture co-founding editor Elizabeth Glickfield will share “the underpinnings of the magazine’s editorial and design ethos and tell the story–both the thrills and the challenges–of sustaining an independent design magazine dedicated to publishing design writing that doesn’t necessarily fuel shopping.”

The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes | April 26

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Join author B. Alexandra Szerlip for a free public talk at the Cooper Union about her new book on iconic polymath designer Norman Bel Geddes. In her book, B. Alexandra Szerlip “reveals precisely how central Bel Geddes was to the history of American innovation.”

IIDA NY's Institutional Forum: Saint Patrick's Cathedral Private Tour | April 27

Photo: Gildardo Sánchez/Flickr.

“Join architect Jeff Murphy, partner of Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects for a tour of Manhattan's iconic St. Patrick's Cathedral! See and hear the inside scoop from the lead architect as he guides a private tour of the recent renovation to get a behind the scenes look.”

John Hejduk Works/Jan Palach Memorial | Closing on April 29

Photo © Hélène Binet.

“This exhibition presents seven of John Hejduk’s built works as photographed by renowned photographer Hélène Binet, who was Hejduk’s photographer of record. The exhibition will also include a chronology of the numerous realizations of Hejduk’s design for the Jan Palach Memorial. As a companion to the interior installation, the School of Architecture will install the Jan Palach Memorial on the plaza outside The Cooper Union’s Foundation Building.” See it now before it closes!

New York City's Dis-Contents: A History of Waste Systems | May 1

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“While the story of New York is often told through its captains of industry, artists, and politicians, the story of the people who have handled its waste is uniquely revealing in what it tells us about how the city has evolved to support such a dense concentration of life....NYU professor and DSNY anthropologist-in-residence Robin Nagle will give a talk about the evolution of the city’s waste infrastructure over the past four centuries and how it could change.”

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