For our fall Modern Conversations event distinguished architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky will share everything about the Modern architecture of 42nd Street—river to river. Her talk will draw from her recently published e-book, Building 42nd Street, A Chronicle: 17th century to December 31, 2024.
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.
Landis Gores, one of the Harvard Five architects, completed a house for his family in New Canaan, CT, in 1948. The house has been owned and occupied by the family for its full 78 years. Experience this early Modern gem at the upcoming Open House.
The 2027 National Symposium is headed to Dallas and Fort Worth in March. Docomomo US has opened its call for session and paper proposals. It’s Lone Star Modernism: From Wide Open Spaces to Urban Places. Deadline October 18.
UNESCO adds more modern architecture to its List! The 2026 inscriptions include 13 works by Aalto, a collection of modernist sites in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and an expansion to Berlin’s Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf 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.
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.
The New York Public Library will host the launch of Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect by Brian D. Goldstein, exploring the career and legacy of influential Black architect J. Max Bond, Jr. Author and scholar Mabel O. Wilson joins for a conversation.
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.