View of Manhattan Bridge approach, courtesy NYC Municipal Archives.
Carrère and Hastings
Tuesday, October 28th
6 - 7 pm
Join Charles D. Warren, architect and co-author of:
Carrère and Hastings Architects
Live! Discount for LW Members!
Join us LIVE at Macaulay Honors College (35 West 67th Street, between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West) for a fresh look at the work and lives of Carrère and Hastings, the architects of beloved Manhattan landmarks including the main branch of the New York Public Library, the U.S. Rubber Company Building, and the First Church of Christ, Scientist on the West Side and the Frick Collection, Grand Army Plaza and the Manhattan Bridge on the East Side.
Charles D. Warren will explore the ways this influential firm defined the modern look of New York City at the start of the 20th century and the influence it exerted on the development of civic buildings, public parks, and skyscrapers as the century unfolded.
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Charles D. Warren is an architect, educator, and historian. His firm, Charles Warren Architect, has designed projects in diverse American locations. He was the Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan; Town Architect in the New Urbanist community of Seaside, Florida; and a recipient of the 2019 Seaside Prize.
Warren writes books and essays about architecture and its history. These include introductions to The Architecture of Charles A. Platt and to John Nolen’s 1927 classic, New Towns for Old. He co-authored the two-volume monograph, Carrère & Hastings Architects, and co-edited Sylvan Cemetery, Architecture, Art, and Landscape at Woodlawn. In 2017, he was guest editor Classicist 14, the annual journal of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.
As a former trustee of the Library of American Landscape History, and a founder and past-president of the Committee to Save the New York Public Library, he has worked to foster the appreciation and preservation of American landmarks and landscapes.
