Join DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State for a unique tour of three Modern playgrounds in Central Park with guide Julia Jacquette, author of Playground of My Mind, a graphic memoir on the modernist “adventure” playgrounds built in the 1970s.
15 outstanding projects! Docomomo US has announced the recipients of the 2026 Modernism in America Awards, honoring exemplary work in preservation, restoration, documentation, and stewardship.
The Architecture & Design Film Festival celebrates the creative spirit that drives architecture and design with a curated selection of films, events and panel discussions. Modern architecture is well represented in this year’s selections.
For this virtual talk presented by Fallingwater, Annalisa Capurro, delves into the extraordinary work and legacy of Italian architect and designer Carlo Scapa—a career marked by a masterful fusion of modernist principles with artisanal techniques.
We’re headed to the Bronx Zoo for a tour of two Modern buildings designed by Morris Ketchum, Jr. & Associates. Experience the World of Birds and the World of Darkness, including viewing original drawings and materials held in the Bronx Zoo’s archives.
The 2027 National Symposium is headed to Dallas and Fort Worth in March. Docomomo US is seeking session and paper proposals. It’s Lone Star Modernism: From Wide Open Spaces to Urban Places. Deadline October 18.
Explore Docomomo’s topical theme for the year, Recreation and Play, with a read through Vol. 1 of the special edition of the Docomomo US Newsletter. Five articles, five very different parks and playgrounds across the country.
The New Canaan Preservation Alliance recently announced that the Chichester Road Historic District—six houses designed by Harrison DeSilver, James Evans, John Black Lee, and Hugh Smallen—has made it to the National Register.
UNESCO adds more modern architecture to its List! The 2026 inscriptions include 13 works by Aalto in Finland, a collection of modernist sites in Uzbekistan, a city centre in Poland, and an expansion to a Berlin housing estate listing.
(That’s August 2027) Isamu Noguchi at Lever House is a new exhibition spread around the courtyard and lobby of Lever House that explores Noguchi’s unrealized vision for those same spaces and his influential collaboration with Gordon Bunshaft.
The New York Times’ “How to be Cultured” team attempted to clue in its readers about Modernism—in ten paragraphs. Humm.
The discussion on Modern architecture is being restarted in Athens: 20th International Docomomo Conference, September 7-10, 2028.
Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uruguay are newly approved DOCOMOMO International working parties, bringing the total to over 80.
Of course you knew the hit series “Severance” is filmed at Saarinen’s Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. They truck in fake snow.
Eight Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses you can book on Airbnb; Arizona to Michigan and one in between.
According to AD magazine, glass block has escaped “trend jail” and is making a comeback in restaurant and residential design.
Are conversation pits the antidote to endless hours in front of screens? Possibly. Check out conversation_pits on instagram for all the inspiration you’ll ever need. It’s a lot about the pillows.
It was only a matter of time. “With the stroke of his pencil he gave structure to life, and life to structure. That is a legacy that lives on.” Now, we’re told, in a new bathroom fixture collection from BRIZO. Catch the video.
Docomomo Journal is the peer-reviewed journal of Docomomo International that, since 1990, has provided a twice-yearly collection of recent and original research on the documentation and conservation of Modern Movement sites. The journal is now open access and digitized back to 2010. Peruse some great issues at our leisure.
Apparently cats like Brutalism a lot more than architectural pundits, civic leaders and everyday onlookers. This Instagram account—taglined a “daily dose of cats and concrete”—is all fun. If you’re on Instagram check out Julliard School, Pirelli Building, Whitney Museum and more.
Along with architecture, Charles and Ray Eames made their mark in short films. In Power of Ten, a 1977 film for IBM, the duo visualized the concept of magnitude and it still mesmerizes. Six million YouTube viewers couldn’t be wrong.