The Head Hi in the City Archtober pop up shop and program space at Center for Architecture spotlights recently released architecture publications selected to celebrate the festival theme of Shared Spaces and a commitment to deepening our relationships with the places we inhabit.
LOCATION:
Center for Architecture
532 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
HOURS:
October 3 - November 1
Thursdays - Fridays, 1-8pm
Saturdays, 1-5pm
Featuring books and design objects for sale, including lamps by AFG Objects, as well as weekly events including book launches, talks, and the New York Architecture & Design Book Club gathering, Head Hi in the City is an extension of Head Hi, New York’s premiere architecture and design-focused bookstore and cultural organization bridging architecture, design, and art via projects, reading materials, and public programming.
See program schedule below and join us for book launches and celebrations throughout the month.
The space is designed by Head Hi in collaboration with New York based architectural lighting designers Studio Atomic and Dooor, an Italian company specialized in tailor-made textile folding doors.
Program Schedule
Friday, October 3, 5-8pm
Head Hi in the City Opening Celebration
Saturday, October 4, 4-6pm
Book Launch for Strangers Need Strange
Moments Together
Daily tous les jours (Montreal)
Friday, October 10, 6-8pm
Photography Book Release for The First Draft
Rich Gilligan (Dublin)
Friday, October 17, 6-8pm
Book Launch and Chat for Projections:
Exhibiting the Hidden
Proyector, Tania Tovar Torres and Juan Carlos Espinosa Cuock (Mexico City)
Tuesday, October 21, 6-8pm
New York Architecture & Design Book Club on Bruno Munari: Design and Visual Communication
Jeffrey Schnapp (Cambridge) and Nontsikelelo Mutiti (New Haven)
Friday, October 24, 6-8pm
Book Launch for Buildings for People and Plants
WORKac (New York City)
Saturday, November 1, 3-5pm
Discussion on Climate Optimism
Mattaforma, Lindsey Wikstrom and MASS, Sierra Bainbridge (New York City)
Book Launch for Strangers Need Strange Moments Together
Saturday, October 4 – 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Join Head Hi and Montreal based studio Daily tous les jours for the book launch for Strangers Need Strange Moments Together, a new collection of essays by designers Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat on creating interactive art in public spaces around the world using music, dance, art, and other mediums during the past 15 years. Emphasizing the joyful, magical, and unexpected to create moments of connection and care between strangers, they have been building an emergent practice combining technology, storytelling, performance, and design, while asking fundamental questions to create meaningful work in a world in crisis.
Meet the authors, meet a stranger! Get your book signed, get a free poster! Let’s celebrate and learn from this book’s experimentation with infrastructure for the human spirit.
Photography Book Release for
The First Draft
Friday, October 10 – 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Come get your copy of The First Draft and meet photographer Rich Gilligan. The book is an artistic homecoming to the roots of Gilligan's creative journey that offers a contemplative look at the themes of belonging, identity, and coming of age in suburbia featuring essays by Ken Grant & Sue Rainsford. It revisits Gilligan's early projects created around Blanchardstown in Dublin which are presented as non-sequential vignettes exploring the complex relationship we often hold with the places that shape us, inviting audiences to experience a dialogue between past and present, where transient moments explore the process of coming of age. Each photograph, whether revisiting past work or presenting fresh perspectives, serves as a personal yet universally resonant meditation on how our environments shape our outlooks and identities.
Bring your skateboard! See you there.
Book Launch and Chat for Projections: Exhibiting the Hidden
Friday, October 17 – 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Join Head Hi and Proyector, a curatorial platform based in Mexico City, for the release of Projections: Exhibiting the Hidden a new book that documents their projects promoting emerging voices in architecture research over its first five years of operation. The book unfolds the process and wide range of themes and phenomena they have addressed, representing the contemporary concerns of a new generation of architects, researchers, artists and practitioners and its disciplinary shifts. The book explores the peripheral condition —geographic and disciplinary— of these practices, delving into the exhibition, curatorship, small spaces, the archive and collective work, as devices that support the proliferation of expanded, experimental and critical practices in architecture.
Meet the Proyector founders. See what they are up to in Mexico City!
New York Architecture & Design Book Club on Bruno Munari: Design and Visual Communication
Tuesday, October 21 – 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Join New York’s only architecture and design book club (that we know of!) The New York Architecture + Design Book Club, organized by Head Hi and the design journal Untapped, is a lively public program and book subscription series that explores remarkable new titles in the field. The books’ authors, contributors and industry experts lead a discussion at each quarterly gathering, which seeks to build deeper connections between people, ideas, and the world in which we live.
The second title for the 2025 season of the book club is Bruno Munari: Design and Visual Communication. A long-overdue English translation of Munari's seminal tract on the everyday value of architecture and design education, Design and Visual Communication (1968) fills a gap in Munari's output for the English-speaking world and provides a highly relevant guide to bridging architecture and design education and everyday life.
Come meet the translator & Munari expert Jeffrey Schnapp in conversation with educator and graphic designer Nontsikelelo Mutiti. Judge a book by its cover! Look back to look forward. See you there.
Book Launch for Buildings for People
and Plants
Friday, October 24 – 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Explore ten recent architectural projects by WORKac and their connections to the surrounding environment in Buildings for People and Plants, a thoughtfully curated architectural publication by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, the New York-based design firm's co-founders. The compelling volume, featuring ten of WORKac's most recent projects, such as the North Boulder Library, the Rhode Island School of Design's Student Success Center, and the Miami Museum Garage, navigates through the interconnected realms of architecture, environment, and social sustainability.
Make new connections between built work and community. Enjoy a visual explosion of contemporary uses of color, material, form and energy of life. Let’s honor the joyful celebration of architecture’s possibilities!
Book Discussion on Climate Optimism
Saturday, November 1 – 3:00 - 5:00 pm
This conversation brings together architects Lindsey Wikstrom and Sierra Bainbridge, designers, thinkers, and authors who are redefining public space through regeneration, material experimentation, and ecological imagination. Through a discussion of their current thinking and respective books, together Wikstrom and Bainbridge will explore how design can move beyond crisis narratives to cultivate resilience, care, and the possibility of flourishing.