common room is programing a bar-evening at the Camp for Oppositional Architecture organized by An Architektur, Tuesday November 17, 7pm.
(10/30/09)

common room contributed to the 'Community: The American Way of Living' exhibition curated by Interboro at the 2009 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
(10/06/09)

'Dimensions and Relations', an ongoing collaboration between common room and the Abrons Arts Center, is showing at the Abrons Arts Center, September 10 - September 26, 2009.
(09/11/09)

Construction is complete on the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building by ifau & Jesko Fezer in cooperation with common room. The reading room is now open, Tuesdays to Saturdays, 1:00 – 6:00 pm.
(09/11/09)

common room is presenting '5 Obstructions (for Architecture)' as part of 'The Global Polis', a lecture series organized by Nader Vossoughian. Friday, August 14 at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
(07/29/09)

'constantly variable' a landscape installation by Thomas Navin Architect at common green (planter at 465 Grand Street, rear entrance), July 26 - August 29, 2009.
(07/29/09)

common room and Telic Arts Exchange are awarded the Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship for their proposal 'The Public School for Architecture'. common room and Telic Arts Exchange will be in residence at Van Alen Institute for the Fall 2009 term.
(07/29/09)

common room is participating in the 'Community Infrastructures' workshop in association with the exhibition 'The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures' curated by Nader Vossoughian. Wednesday, June 24 at the Center for Architecture.
(06/19/09)

'Common Room presents Dexter Sinister (Circular)' and 'Dexter Sinister presents Common Room (Circular)' beginning at Dexter Sinister on Thursday June 25 at 7pm. For more, http://www.dextersinister.org/index.html?id=206
(06/19/09)

'The Putting Lot' - a nine-hole miniature-golf course in Bushwick, Brooklyn, that explores the possibilities of vacant lots in the city with an emphasis on community spaces. Each hole is designed by a different team of artists or architects. The Putting Lot is co-organized by common room employee Rachel Himmelfarb and includes a hole designed by The Putting Lot team and common room. The Putting Lot will be open throughout the summer beginning Saturday June 6.
(06/05/09)

common room now on Facebook.
(04/24/09)

‘5 Obstructions (for Architecture)’ an installation by common room at Häfele America Co., January 9 - January 30, 2009. Lecture: Thursday January 22, 6:30pm.
(01/09/09)

'Visualizing SPURA' an exhibition by students of the City Studio at Eugene Lang/New School and Prof. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, in collaboration with the initiative SPURA Matters, a project of Place Matters, GOLES and the Pratt Center for Community Development at common room 2, January 29 - March 21, 2009. Opening Reception: Thursday January 29, 6-8pm.
(01/19/09)

'EVERY DAY THE URGE GROWS STRONGER TO GET HOLD OF AN OBJECT AT VERY CLOSE RANGE BY WAY OF ITS LIKENESS, ITS REPRODUCTION' - David Reinfurt of Dexter Sinister will talk with Lars Fischer of common room about a recently published short-run “library” book composed of texts previously published online as Portable Document Formats in the Library at http://www.dextersinister.org. The conversation will take place on Tuesday February 17 at 6:30pm at Studio-X.
(02/12/09)

'Reinventing Goethe, part 2' - as part of the Armory Arts Week, common room programmed an afternoon exploring the concept of Reinventing Goethe, the redesign of the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building by ifau & Jesko Fezer, and the concurrent series of events collaboratively curated by Joseph Grima and ifau & Jesko Fezer. The event will take place at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, Sunday March 8, noon - 5pm.
(03/02/09)

'Public Phenomena' by Temporary Services - book launch of the first Half Letter Press publication at common room 2. Following a short introduction to the book by Brett Bloom, Damon Rich and Joseph Heathcott will discuss their research into how communities effectively organized against racist city planning and bank policies and the marks this left on the spaces and history of the city. Thursday March 26, 7pm.
(03/19/09)