Head Hi Events + News
Records Books HiFi at Head Hi
Saturday, December 14, 4-8pm
New York Architecture + Design Book Club
Tuesday, December 3, 6-8pm
The New York Architecture + Design Book Club is back with our third title selection for the 2024 subscription and quarterly event series. Together with our co-organizer Untapped, we'll be discussing and looking at Hélène Binet, a new monograph that explores work by the celebrated photographer, whose abstract pictures, according to one of her collaborators, Peter Zumthor, “allows the viewer to enter the space—not only the architectural space, but also the emotional space.”
Martino Stierli, the chief curator of architecture and design at MoMA, co-authored the book and will be at our gathering to talk about it with designer Danny Kaplan. Get the book and RSVP to join us!
Iwan Baan, Rome – Las Vegas, Bread and Circuses
Friday, November 22, 6-8pm
Join Head Hi as we host the book launch for Rome – Las Vegas Bread and Circuses by world renowned photographer Iwan Baan! The shiny new book explores the historical and contemporary intersection of power and play between the two cities.
To celebrate, we'll have a lively chat with writer and contributor Ryan Scavnicky, senior Curator at Maxxi Architettura and Rome local Pippo Ciorra, and architect Lane Rick with drinks and a book signing.
The Color Black: Book Launch + Conversation
Saturday, November 16, 3-5pm
Join Head Hi and MACK as we host author, architect and educator Mohsen Mostafavi and designer Sean Canty for an afternoon book launch and conversation on this newly released publication exploring the use and possibilities of the color black across art and architectural histories.
Days Without Number, New York City Book Launch
Published by Head Hi
October 29, 6-8pm, Center for Architecture
Head Hi is excited to announce the publication of their second book, co-published by Mousse, featuring the work of Milan-based architectural photographer Giovanna Silva. Titled Days Without Number, New York City, the book will feature a collection of more than 700 photos shot by Giovanna Silva during the last three years of long walks through NYC and includes an introductory text from New York-based writer Sasha Frere-Jones.
Though organized as a calendar, it defies any sense of linear time or chronology, presenting instead a puzzle of images. She walked often more than ten miles a day guided by architecture, seeing as much as she could, obsessively passing by the same site again and again. The book features a text by NYC writer Sasha Frere-Jones.
For the launch, Silva will present her work and then discuss the exploration of New York City's buildings, streets, and built environment with writer and musician Sasha Frere-Jones and Head Hi co-founders Alexandra Hodkowski and Alvaro Alcocer.
Reading Room Book Talk: New and Reimagined Libraries of the American West
Wednesday, October 16, 6-8pm
Lara Swimmer’s new book Reading Room: New and Reimagined Libraries of the American West documents a new generation of regional libraries that are redefining public space in the 21st century. Through text and photography, the book examines the libraries’ place and function in cities and rural communities alike.
Join Head Hi and Esto as we host photographer Lara Swimmer, writer Laura Raskin, and editor Jack Murphy for a conversation about Reading Room and the role of libraries in the digital age.
Generations of Creativity
Wednesday, October 9, 6:30-8:30pm
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of architect Louis Kahn, whose work had a profound impact on American architecture. How should we to engage with his legacy? Beginning from the recent title Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook, delivered earlier this year by Lars Müller Publishers, this evening of intimate conversation explores answers with Sue Ann Kahn, his daughter, and Gregory Kahn Melitonov, her son and Louis’s grandson.
Join Head Hi, The Architect’s Newspaper, and Form Portfolios for an engaging event about Kahn’s design process, his lifelong dedication to the fine arts, and how his legacy influenced the creative processes of his family.
Refashioning the Culture
Wednesday, October 2, 6:00pm
From the late 60s till the mid-80s, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) stood at the very center of New York's architecture culture, acting as a platform for projects ranging from the publications Oppositions, October, and Skyline, to books like Rem Koolhaas' Delirious New York, and numerous exhibitions, classes, and public programs.
Join professor Kim Förster along with Head Hi and New York Review of Architecture for the launch of the most thorough account of the IAUS story to date, his new book Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967–1985. Förster will be in conversation with critic and NYRA contributor Thomas de Monchaux to discuss the histories, myths, and legacies of a pivotal moment in American architectural culture.
If you pre-order the book (available on checkout) or are a NYRA subscriber you attend for free.
Architecture + Design Film Festival
September 25-28, East Village
The Head Hi Book Kiosk returns for this year's Architecture & Design Film Festival from September 25-28! Join us at Angelika Cinemas in the East Village for one of our favorite annual events. We made a special selection of books based on this year's film topics including biocentrics, Eileen Gray, Emilio Ambasz, community land trust, landscapes, the architecture of Cairo and so much more.
Learn more about the Head Hi Book Kiosk here and click below to check out the films. Use code HEADHI upon check out for a discount : )
Landscape with(out) Locus Book Talk
Tuesday, September 17, 6:30-8:30pm
How do we understand landscape today? How do we discuss and visualize nature? Can they be conceived and represented as something existing independently of the viewer, now that the human race has gotten into a very last corner of the world?
Join Head Hi and NERO Editions (Italy) as we host Eva Leitolf and Giulia Cordin, the editors of recently released book Landscape with(out) Locus, in discussion with landscape architect and contributor to the book Tiago Torres-Campos on these very questions.
Available Works Book Fair
Saturday & Sunday, Sept 14 & 15
Join us and over 30 other vendors at Available Works September 14-15, 12-6pm. Art books, magazines, posters, and more, presented by Something Special Studios at WSA (161 Water St, Manhattan, enter the fair through the John St. Entrance. Opening night is Thursday, September 12th, 6-9pm.
Head Hi + Pratt School of Architecture
present A Purple Architecture
Tuesday, September 10, 6:30-8:30pm
Join the Pratt School of Architecture’s Undergraduate Chair of Architecture Stephen Slaughter, Professor Jason Vigneri-Beane, and Head Hi for a book talk, celebration and Augmented Realty experience for A Purple Architecture, an edited collection of essays and projects investigating Purpleness, as a quality independent from the virtual and physical, the material and immaterial, and mundane and exotic.
Contributors to the book including Jason Vigneri-Beane, Stephanie Sang Delgado, Galo Canizares, and Ryan Scavnicky will discuss its premise and a world in between the virtual and physical with mixed-reality designer Jeffrey Anderson. After the talk, use your phone to experience the AR book cover and models that inspired the book’s investigations into articulating a future where technology and reality are blurred yet seen as an opening of possibilities.
A Purple Architecture is edited by James F. Kerestes, Ebrahim Poustinchi, & Vahid Vahdat with the book and its augmented reality experience designed by Ebrahim Poustinchi.
Messwork's Embodied Making
Somatic Design Workshop
Sunday, September 8, 1 - 3:30pm
Embodied Making is a 2.5 hour workshop offering a distinct fusion of the intuitive art of collage-making and somatic practices designed to cultivate creativity and self-awareness (of our whole and parts) through the body's wisdom. Somatics, an alternative to traditional therapy, emphasizes bottom-up, body-oriented approaches to treat trauma and modify stress responses while supporting alignment, integration, fullness, and consciousness-raising.
Participants will explore carefully curated techniques, including mindful breathing, body scans, resourcing, and visualization exercises, enabling a deeper connection with one's environment, the tools at hand, and the artistic collages created. Whether you're an experienced artist or designer or simply curious about the transformative potential of somatic practices and creativity, Embodied Making offers a holistic approach to self-expression and healing in a supportive and enriching environment.
This workshop is led by Messwork, a somatic practice creating process-oriented interventions for clients. Designed and run by Cristina (Cri) Gabriele, Messwork emphasizes healing as a process while reclaiming and utilizing its inherent messiness as a tool. Aligning with somatic practices as a transforming through process, Messwork collaborates with clients as living, breathing compositions, seeking to create, form, reform, and rearrange selves and parts into unified wholes, naturally rehabilitating the state of consciousness.
EMOCEAN Issue #7 Launch Party
Fri, Aug 9, 5-8pm
We're thrilled to celebrate the new issue EMOCEAN 07. Join the launch party August 9th at Head Hi with EMOCEAN's Founders, Creative Director Thembi Hanify and Editor in Chief Mariah Ernst!
EMOCEAN is a biannual publication about surfing with a fresh modern perspective that tells stories from diverse groups of ocean people. We absolutely love this publication.
Issue 7's theme is Pain, featuring artwork by Markus Uran, a bizarre and interesting series titled Sharp Objects he made using Artificial Intelligence software. Imaginary objects, creatures and concepts around surfing and the sea. Markus is a dear friend of Head Hi and we're always stoked to catch waves with him in the Rockaways, NYC's closest surfing beach. Markus will be with us on August 9th at Head Hi for the launch party.
Other exciting stories in Issue 7 include:
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In "California Double", Josiah Sylstra shares his passions, art and surfing.
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Conner Smith writes about the Tahitian community fighting to conserve and protect Teahupo'o, their land and reef break, from a tower of doom built for the 2024 Olympics.
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For "Locals: Bull Bay", Bailey Rebecca Roberts takes us to the Caribbean island of Jamaica.
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In "Show Me Where it Hurts" Matt L. Roar and illustrator by Justin Valdes explore the magazine's theme of pain.
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Imogene Barron's documentation in "Water Buffalo Stories" share more about a remote Indonesian island's new surf scene and ancient living textile tradition.
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"The Tao of Kai" by Leo Maxam features Bali's surfer & rising star Kailani Johnson accompanies by photos by Falkwyn De Goyeneche.
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Coco Ho and Laura Enever share about dropping out from competitions and approaching surfing for fun, free expression and surfboard design in "Welcome to the Fun Tour".
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In "When the Wiliwili Bloom" Tom Põhaku Stone shares about Hawaiian tradition, wisdom, sharks and craft.
Come celebrate this fantastic publication, the people that publish it and the life and joy oceans provide for all of us living creatures : Copies of EMOCEAN 07 will be available for sale, and we'll have merch, refreshments, music and more! No RSVP needed. Free to attend. All ages, all are welcome. Sea ya then!
Pleasure Planets Album Release + Listening Party
July 9, 2024 6-10pm
After two packed Record Listening Sessions this year, we're looking forward to enjoying new music by Pleasure Planet paired with amazing flavors that will expand our senses brought to you by our friends at Williamsburg based restaurant Allswell.
Pleasure Planet's kaleidoscopic debut album has been a long time coming, but good things come to those who wait. Developed over years of late-night studio improvisations, 'Pleasure Planet' is an affectionate and colorful patchwork of the New York City-based trio's knotted influences that's suspended between the rave and the chill-out room, weaving glistening pads and chunky ba