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In a summer of must-see architecture exhibitions (specifically I'm referring to Le Corbusier at MoMA ), there is one more , at the Gagosian Gallery on West 21st Street: Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Fragments , which runs until August 2. I stopped by on Thursday for the opening reception. Twenty-four tables document the same number of projects in the large skylit space, with even more models and photos overhead. The opening reception was the least ideal time to visit the exhibition and get immersed in any of the projects, be it the Pompidou, the Tjibaou Cultural Center, the New York Times Building, or one of the in-progress projects on display. The large numbers of people just accentuated the sheer quantity of models, drawings, photos, books, and other objects on display, while making it impossible to sit down and examine the materials. The exhibition has been done before in slightly different form as early as 2003 , but this iteration coincides with the half...

Here are some of my photos of Party Wall , the 2013 YAP installation at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, by CODA . The installation is up until August 31, 2013. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

Here are a few slideshows of photos I took while in Denver last week for the AIA Convention. Denver Art Museum (Gio Ponti, 1971; and Daniel Libeskind, 2006) and Denver Public Library (Michael Graves, 1996): Clyfford Still Museum (Allied Works, 2011): Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (David Adjaye, 2007)

Here are some photos of the Zarzuela Hippodrome (1935) in Madrid, Spain, by architects Carlos Arniches and Martín Dominguez, and engineer Eduardo Torroja, photographed by Ximo Michavila . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

On Saturday, June 29, at 11am I'll be giving a walking tour of architecturally distinctive stores in SoHo . We'll duck in and out of retail environments like Rem Koolhaas's Prada, Asymptote's Alessi, and Thomas Heatherwick's Loncghamp, pictured below. Head over to the 92YTribeca page for tickets .

Here are some photos of the Museum de Fundatie expansion (2013) in Zwolle, Netherlands, by BiermanHenket Architects , photographed by Ken Lee . Update 06.25: A couple interior shots: To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

I'm a bit too tired to put some thoughts together on this now, but here are plenty of photos of Alvaro Siza's lecture last night at the Museum of Modern Art , organized with the Architectural League of New York. His talk focused on one building, the Foundation Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil. As can be seen, Siza spent lots of time talking about his sketches and design process, before looking at some precedents from his past then construction shots and photos of the completed building. At the end he spoke with MoMA curator Pedro Gadanho; the lecture was prefaced by comments from Barry Bergdoll and a history of Siza's architecture from Kenneth Frampton.

Head over to World-Architects to read my write-up of the MoMA exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes in the current eMagazine .

In addition to the Le Corbusier retrospective at MoMA , the upcoming Renzo Piano show at Gagosian Gallery , and a must-see James Turrell show at the Guggenheim , here are a couple smaller exhibitions in New York City worth checking out this summer. The Vienna Model Austrian Cultural Forum New York April 17 - September 2 FitNation Center for Architecture June 13 - September 7