AAP NYC News and Academic Calendar
"The fourth year of programming for AAP NYC is underway and promises to be its most important one to date."
News from AAP NYC
Fall 2009 Academic Calendar
Wednesday, Sept. 2
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Graduate and undergraduate orientation, 11 a.m.
Reception with AAP NYC faculty, 5 p.m.
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Thursday, Sept. 3
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First day of classes
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Tuesday, Sept. 15
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Professional Placements begin
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Saturday, Oct. 10–Tuesday, Oct. 13
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Fall Break |
Wednesday, Nov. 18
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Professional Placements end |
Wednesday, Nov. 25–Sunday, Nov. 29
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Thanksgiving Recess
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Wednesday, Dec. 9
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Last day of classes |
Thursday, Dec. 10–Friday, Dec. 11
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Study period |
Monday, Dec. 14–Friday, Dec. 18
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Final reviews |
Friday, Dec. 18
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Last day to turn in keys, clean out lockers and studio |
Sunday, Dec. 20
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Last day to move out of Weill housing
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AAP NYC Events
Tours
- Orientation Day tour of Highline Park with Matthew Johnson of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Nayhun Hwang of James Corner Field Operations
- Polshek-designed Standard Hotel with Christine Gachot of Andre Balazs Properties
- Tower 4 of the World Trade Center with Osamu Sassa of Maki and Associate, and Stephanie Goto
- Lent Space tour with curator Adam Kleinman
- Morimoto Restaurant with Stephanie Goto
- The New Academic Building at Cooper Union with representatives of Morphosis and Sciame
- Empire State Building
- Irish Hunger Memorial with artist Brian Tolle
Lecturers
- Thom Mayne
- Andrew Benjamin
- Amy Barkow
- Paul Ramirez Gomez
- Nato Thompson
- Lisa Sigal
- Julianne Swartz
- Mierle Ukeles
Special Events
Architecture Firm Tours
- ARO
- LTL
- Office of Metropolitan Architecture
- Polsheck Partnership Architects
- Raphael Vinoly
Artist Studio Visits
- Emilie Clark
- Dave Herman of City Reliquary
- Alfredo Jaar
- McCallum and Tarry
- Dexter Sinister/David Reinfurt
- Judith Werthein
See also the Professional Practice syllabus for current semester architecture firm visits.
