Levers Long Enough | Exhibition Opening

February 4, 2026 6:15 PM – 8:00 PM

Higgins Hall Gallery and North Gallery, 61 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Pink sheet of paper filled with hand-drawn architectural sketches, diagrams, and handwritten notes in black ink, showing conceptual studies of building forms, arches, massing, sections, and spatial transitions, with rough annotations and exploratory linework indicating an early-stage design process.

Levers Long Enough to Move the World

Sketches in Contemporary Architecture

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”.

Archimedes

“Levers Long Enough to Move the World” is an exhibition of architectural sketches at the Pratt School of Architecture featuring the work of more than 50 contemporary practices. It is organized around a question and theory. First, what is the sketch today? Second, as a proposed response, that sketches are levers. They are a way of asserting architecture’s physicality in an ever-less material world, and of exerting the force of this physicality entirely out of proportion to their smallness, quickness, and humility.

Please join us for the exhibition opening, featuring a gallery talk by Edward Eigen, Senior Lecturer in the History of Landscape and Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and introduction by Andrew Holder, Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design.

Curator: Andrew Holder
Faculty Co-Curators: Alex Tahinos, Inmo Kang, and Fernando Garrido Carreras
Exhibition Assistants: Jack Daley, Ashley Gray, Stephen Favale, Harsh Panchal, Nathan Trecker

Special thanks to Quilian Riano, Dean School of Architecture, and Alicia Imperiale, Assistant Dean, for support of the exhibition.

Participating practices include:

  • 1 x 17 (Mahsa Malek and Alex Yueyan Li)
  • Abby Coover Hume (of Overlay Office)
  • Agency Agency (Tei Carpenter)
  • Almost Studio (Anthony Gagliardi and Dorian Booth)
  • BairBalliet (Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet)
  • Barry Wark
  • Bouwman Zago (Andrew Zago)
  • Brennan Buck (of FreelandBuck)
  • Bureau Spectacular (Jimenez Lai)
  • Common Accounts (Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler)
  • Current Interests (Matthew Au and Mira Henry)
  • Curtis Roth
  • D.esk (David Eskenazi)
  • Dash Marshall (Ritchie Yao)
  • David Freeland (of FreelandBuck)
  • Davidson Rafailidis (Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis)
  • DRAWINGS (Daniel Garcia and William Smith)
  • Efimero Design (Nicoletta Kyvernitis and Ernesto Carvajal)
  • Ensamble Studio (Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa)
  • Evan Farley
  • Extents (Cyrus Peñarroyo and McLain Clutter)
  • Future Expansion (Deirdre McDermott and Nicholas McDermott)
  • Hans Tursack
  • Hilary Sample (of MOS)
  • Smith-Miller + Hawkinson (Henry Smith-Miller)
  • project:if (Iman Fayyad)
  • Independent Architecture (Paul Andersen)
  • JA Architecture (Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi)
  • Jacki Bloom
  • JaJa Co (Michelle Chang)
  • Jesús Vassallo
  • Johnston MarkLee (Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee)
  • KOL/MAC (Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald)
  • Lindy Roy
  • Mariel Collard
  • Michael Meredith (of MOS)
  • NADAA (Nader Tehrani)
  • nARCHITECTS
  • Nate Hume (Hume Architecture)
  • Neil Denari
  • Norman Kelley (Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley)
  • OFFPOLINN (Andrés Jaque)
  • Outpost Office (Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann)
  • PATTERNS (Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich)
  • Pneu Stars (Adam Miller)
  • Productora (Wonne Ickx, Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime)
  • Reiser Umemoto (Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto)
  • Office for Roundtable (Leyuan Li)
  • Sauter von Moos (Florian Sauter and Charlotte von Moos)
  • SO-IL (Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu)
  • Stephanie Lin (of Present Forms)
  • Steven Holl
  • Ultramoderne (Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis)
  • Weiss Manfredi (Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi)
  • Welcome Projects (Laurel Consuelo Broughton)
  • WORKac (Amale Andraos and Dan Wood)
  • Zachary Schumacher