MEx – The Metropolitan Exchange

The Metropolitan Exchange (MEx) is an architecture, urban planning, and research cooperative located in downtown Brooklyn. MEx is made up of design professionals, developers, and scholars who come together to collaborate on architecture and planning projects, pursue development opportunities, and sponsor lectures, dinners and screenings; exhibitions; a community supported agriculture program; and a library of books, dvds, and periodicals on architecture and urban planning.

Friday, October 1, 2010, 7 p.m. reading followed by signing and reception

Please come celebrate the release of Haunted House (The Monacelli Press) by Corinne May Botz. Haunted Houses is a photographic exploration of sites throughout the United States where ghostly phenomena are reported. The 208-page book includes over 150 color photographs of haunted spaces and a selection of transcribed oral ghost stories. Haunted Houses traverses diverse fields such as photography, cultural history, architecture, folklore, and the supernatural. For more information visit:

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781580932912

Saturday, June 26, 5 p.m. tour / 6:30 p.m. reception

To celebrate the release of Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall, a new book exploring Downtown Brooklyn’s many redevelopment sagas, please join authors Meredith TenHoor, Rosten Woo and Damon Rich for a walking tour of Fulton Street, followed by a reception at the Metropolitan Exchange.

Walking tour
5 p.m. Meet at the corner of Fulton St. & Adams St., Brooklyn.
Space on the tour is limited; RSVP required
Please RSVP to rostenwoo@gmail.com

Reception
6:30 p.m. At the Metropolitan Exchange,
33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn

Friday April 9 9:00 PM

with Speedism

Speedism presents the lecture-performance “BROOKLYN DRONE TEMPLE DOOM BABY”.
This is the second part of the Speedism performance program scheduled next week at the US East coast.

Speedism is the duo Julian Friedauer, Germany, and Pieterjan Ginckels, Belgium. They work in the fields of architecture, architectural theory, visual arts, visual theory, urban tactics, imagineering, visual arts and scriptwriting.

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Tuesday March 30 6:30 PM

with Nathan Kensinger

Nathan Kensinger is a photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the the abandoned and industrial edges of New York City.
He will be sharing stories of sites along the Gowanus Canal, inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and at Fresh Kills, among others, while walking us through his beautiful images.

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