Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York

Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York is a volume of essays that commemorate the 60th anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Law, which established the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) and initiated the era of historic preservation in New York City. Commissioned by the NYC Landmarks60 Alliance, the book's contributors are architects and engineers, critics, and preservationists who have moved "beyond architecture" to explore varied aspects of the impact, legacy, and current and future status of historic preservation in New York City.

Two contributing authors, Justin Davidson and Nat Oppenheimer, will discuss the themes of their essays, "The Long View: Building for Rebuilding" and "Engineering Landmarks," and join in dialogue with Skyscraper Museum director Carol Willis.

JUSTIN DAVIDSON
Justin Davidson has been the architecture and classical music critic at New York magazine since 2007, and his architecture columns also appear on the website Curbed. He won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2002 and was a finalist again in 2020. His book Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York presents a portrait of the city told through its history, architecture, music, art, and literature. A graduate of Harvard, he earned a doctorate in music composition at Columbia University. He teaches in the Urban Design program at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

NAT OPPENHEIMER
Nat Oppenheimer is a structural engineer who leads the Buildings sector of Silman, a TYLin company. He has extensive experience in the areas of new construction, renovation, and historic preservation. Nat has taught courses at the Graduate School of Architecture at Princeton University, Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and at Parsons, the New School for Design. He is a board member of the Architectural League of New York and part of the Grace Farms Design for Freedom initiative, an interdisciplinary group advocating to end forced labor in built environment supply chains.