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"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: Sketches in Contemporary Architecture
June 4-25, 2026 in the FXCollaborative Gallery
Viewing by appointment only. Call 212-627-1700.
I.D. Required for building entry.

Please join us for the exhibition opening, featuring a gallery talk by Andrew Holder, Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design.
Thursday, June 11
6-8 PM in the FXCollaborative Gallery
1 Willoughby Square (235 Duffield Street), 7th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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FXCollaborative staff sketches will also be on view in an adjacent gallery.

"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 30 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.

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 of the The School of Architecture, and Alicia Imperiale, Assistant Dean, for support of the exhibition.

Participating practices include:
Adam Miller and Strat Coffman
Brennan Buck (of FreelandBuck)
Dash Marshall (Ritchie Yao)
David Freeland (of FreelandBuck)
Davidson Rafailidis (Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis)
Ensamble Studio (Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa)
Evan Farley
Future Expansion (Deirdre McDermott and Nicholas McDermott)
FXCollaborative (Toby Snyder)
Hans Tursack
Hilary Sample (of MOS)
Independent Architecture (Paul Andersen)
JaJa Co (Michelle Chang)
Jesús Vassallo
KOL/MAC (Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald)
LADG (Andrew Holder and Benjamin Freyinger)
nARCHITECTS
Outpost Office (Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann)
SO-IL (Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu)
Stan Allen
Steven Holl
Theo David
Weiss Manfredi (Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi)
Welcome Projects (Laurel Consuelo Broughton)
Young&Ayata (Michael Young and Kutan Ayata)

Theoharis David
St Nicholas Shrine
Pencil on paper
8.25” x 11”
David Eskenazi (of d.esk)
Pink Paper Sketches
Black Papermate Flair Medium pen on Hammermill Colors 24lb Pink
8.5x11”
Daniel Garcia, William Smith (of DRAWINGS)
Translations from Drawings to Drawings
Pen and digital print
5x7”
Deirdre and Nicholas McDermott (of FUTURE EXPANSION)
Outdoor Theater in Newark, NJ
Pen and marker
6x11”
Mariel Collard
Plantings, Maybe
Hand embroidery (posta) with cotton
12” x 12"
Hilary Sample (of MOS)
Tending Architecture
Paint and pencil on paper
11.75" 16.5"
Laurel Consuelo Broughton (of Welcome Projects)
A Peculiar Garden Map Sketch
Pen and paint on paper
17”x11”
Toby Snyder (of FXCollaborative)
Study for Downtown Brookyln Tower
Pen and paint on paper
9”x12”