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Watch The Met's A Year of Architecture in a Day symposium in New York

Dezeen livestreamed a series of architecture talks and discussions at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which featured presentations by architects including Wang Shu, David Adjaye, Amanda Levete and Elizabeth Diller.

The livestream has now ended, but you can still watch the full day of talks. The first part of the symposium is embedded at the top of this story, while the second part can be watched below.

Dezeen was media partner for In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day, which The Met hosted for the second year running in the museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

The symposium brought together architects, artists, curators and filmmakers from around the world, each selected to present a project that has had a particular impact this year.

Our livestream will be split into two parts to coincide with the programme for the day, which can be seen in full on The Met's website.

The first part of the livestream featured a keynote presentation by Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese architect Wang Shu about his Fuyang Cultural Complex in China, as well as a series of fast-paced talks about the year's key buildings and projects, by architects including David Adjaye and Shih-Fu Peng.

Artist Lucy McRae screened her short film The Institute of Isolation, a fictional examination of the ways travellers to outer space could use architecture and design to train their bodies for the challenge.

Elizabeth Diller will talk about the Vagelos Education Center. Photograph by Iwan Baan

During the second part of the livestream, The Met's associate curator of architecture and design, Beatrice Galilee – who organised the programme – took part in a conversation with a creative leader at IKEA.

There was also a panel discussion titled In Our Future: Radical Design Education, which was moderated by the museum's chair of education, Sandra Jackson-Dumont.

Artist John Gerrard will discuss his Western Flag, simulated using black smoke to symbolise climate change

More short architecture presentations from figures including Amanda Levete, Elizabeth Diller, Junya Ishigami and Iwan Baan were held before artist John Gerrard discussed his work Western Flag, a simulated flag of black smoke.

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