Archtober Is Coming
This fall the Center for Architecture and the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) will host the inaugural year of Archtober, the first-ever month-long festival of architecture and design in New York City. Pentagram’s Luke Hayman and team have designed the identity and graphics for the festival, launching October 1.
Archtober will present over 100 lectures, conferences, films, tours, programs, exhibitions and other special events that focus on the importance of architecture and design in urban life. To celebrate New York’s contemporary architecture, the festival will feature a “Building of the Day,” each of which is a recent recipient of the AIA New York Chapter Design Award and will be open for a special tour.
Archtober is organized by the AIA New York Chapter (AIANY), the Center for Architecture, openhousenewyork (OHNY) and the Architecture and Design Film Festival. The festival grew out of New York’s Architecture Week, first introduced in 2003 when the AIANY opened the Center for Architecture and OHNY began hosting tours of buildings around the city. Since then, Architecture Week has taken place in the second week of October; in 2010 the Architecture & Design Film Festival hosted its first New York event the following week. Additionally, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s National Design Week falls in October. The popularity of these events, in addition to the enthusiastic participation of over 30 other architecture and design organizations, has enabled Architecture Week to grow into Archtober.
We’ll have more to share about the festival in the coming weeks. In the meantime, download your own copy of the Archtober guide here.
The calendar lists over 100 events and can be downloaded here.
Project Team: Luke Hayman, partner-in-charge and designer; Rami Moghadam and Braulio Amado, designers.