Meet with group leader at the airport and departure for New York. Arrive at Kennedy airport, transfer by private coach to hotel On the Ave, 2178 Broadway at 77th street, NY 10024 and check in. Departure with guide for a cruise on River Hudson. Return to hotel passing through Times Square by night. Dinner on own.

Meet with guide and departure by private coach for Greenwich Village, East Village, Gramercy Park and Chelsea, and visit to the following buildings (only outside): Grand Central Station (Reed & Stem, Warren & Wetmore), Fashion Center Area (Pentagram), Whitespace Studios (Andrew Berman), Flat Iron Building (Burnham & co), Union Square, Perry Street Tower (Richard Meier), The Porter House (Gregg Pasquarelli di SHoP), Comme des Garcons (Future System), Galleria e studio di Arte (Smith/Thomson), Lehmann Gallery (OMA/Koolhaas). Arrive at the American Institute of Architecture. Free time to visit the centre and current exhibitions. Lunch on own. Transfer to an architecture studio in New York (to be determined), visit to the building and meet with architect. Return on own to hotel, free time for dinner.

Breakfast at hotel and departure for Midtown for a visit to the following buildings (only outside): ONU Headquarters (Le Corbusier), United Nations Plaza (Roche Dinkeloo), Ford Foundation Building (Roche Dinkeloo), Tudor City (Fred F. French & Co., H. Douglas Ives), The Corinthian (Michael Schimenti & Der Scutt Architects), 885 Third Avenue (Philip Johnson & John Burgee), Daily News Building (Raymond Hood, André Fouilhoux and John Mead Howells), J.P.Morgan Chase Building (SOM), Andy Warhol’s Factory, Scandinavian house area (Polshek Partnership), LVMH Tower (Christian de Portzamparc), Sony Building (Philip Johnson and John Burgee), IBM Building (Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates), Trump Tower (Der Scutt / Swanke Hayden Connel & Partners), St. Regis Hotel (Towerbridge & Livingston), Exxon building (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris), CBS Building (Eero Saarinen), Carnegie Hall (Tuthill, Polshek, Cesar Pelli), Museum of Modern Art (Goodwin/ Durell Stone, Philip Johnson, Cesar Pelli), Columbus Circle (Edward Durell Stone & Associates), Worldwide Plaza (SOM), D.E. Shaw Group (Steven Holl), Trump World Tower (Costas Kondylis & Associates), Seagram Building (Mies van der Rohe), Met Life building (SOM/Emery Roth con Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi), Chrysler Building (William Van Hallen), Empire State Building (Shrer/Lamb/Armon). Lunch on own nearby the Rockfeller Centre (Associated Architects) and free time. In the afternoon, the guided tour continues with a visit to the Modern Art Museum MOMA (Stone & Goodwin, extension Taniguchi). Free time to visit the building and current exhibitions. Return to hotel, dinner on own.

Breakfast at hotel and departure by private coach for SoHo, visit to the following buildings: Scholastic Building (Aldo Rossi), The Little Singer Building (Ernest Flagg), Civic Centre Synagogue (William N. Berger), AT&T Headquarters (Ralph Walker), Saatchi and Saatchi (SOM - Lee Harris Pomeroy, Emery Roth), 140 Franklin street (Albert Wagner), State Insurance Fund (Lorimer Rich & associates), 172 Duane Street (Jacob Weber), Fleming Smith Warehouse (Stephen Decatur Hatch), Western Union Building (Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker), Former New York Mercantile Exchange (Thomas R. Jackson), 8 Thomas street (Jarvis Morgan Slade), 319 Broadway (D. & J. Jardine), NY Life Insurance Company (Stephen Decatur Hatch/ McKim, Mead & White), Department of Water, Gas, Electricity (Augustus Shepard), AT&T Long Lines (John Carl Warnecke), Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank (Raymond F. Almirall), Broadway Chambers Building (Cass Gilbert), Sun Building (Joseph Trench, John B. Snook), 484 Broome Street, New Era Building (Buchman and Deisler), Puck Building (Albert Wagner), Prada Flagship Store (OMA/ Koolhaas), Storefront for Art and Architecture (Steven Holl). Visit on own to the New MOMA, SoHo (SANAA - Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa). Lunch at museum cafè or at one of the typical delis in the area. Transfer to Ground Zero, guided walk around 6,5 ha site where the World Trade Center was located (Daniel Liebeskind, opening 2011). Visit to the Tribute WTC ‘Visitors Centre’. Return to hotel, free time for dinner.

Breakfast at hotel and departure by private coach for Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, Seaport and Civic Centre, and visit (only outside) of the following buildings: Bayard Codict Building (Luis Sullivan), Max Mara Store (Grassi), Little Singer Building (Ernst Flagg), Haughwout Building, Restaurant 66 (Richard Meier), Woolworth Building (Cass Gilbert), World Financial Centre (Cesar Pelli & Associates), One Liberty Centre (SOM), Wall Street, Equitable Life Building (Graham), NY Stock Exchange (George Post), Whiteney Musuem (Marcel Breuer, underway extension by Renzo Piano). The visit continues at the Guggenheim Museum (Frank Lloyd Wright). Free time for lunch at the museum cafè and to visit the building as well as the permanent and current exhibitions.
Return to hotel, dinner on own.

Breakfast at hotel and walk down to Central Park. Guided walk through the park. Return to hotel and transfer to the airport for outbound flight.

Arrive in Italy.