DOCOMOMO US/NY Tri-State is co-sponsoring an open house and talk at the Landsberg House in Port Washington, NY. Designed by William Landsberg in 1951 and recently renovated by Stephen Moser Architects.
Join DOCOMOMO US/NY Tri-State for the first of two weekend walking tours focusing on urban renewal. This one looks at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of the larger 45-acre Lincoln Square Urban Renewal Project.
The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences presents a lecture on structural engineer Jaroslav Josef Polívka and his iconic spiral diverging ramps for the Guggenheim Museum.
1950s Greenwich Village and its superblocks is the second DOCOMOMO US/NY Tri-State urban renewal tour of the weekend. Kyle Johnson unpacks the Washington Square Southeast project and its evolution.
The Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton Battlefield State Park are currently looking for buyers to move the Atle Selberg residence—a circa 1952 Usonian School structure—to a new site.
It’s tour time again! DOCOMOMO US Tour Day is devoted to the appreciation of modern architecture in the United States. Lots of Tri-State options.
Yale School of Architecture will host Paolo Tombesi for a lecture on the technical division of labor and how construction and project management decisions influenced this complex project
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust is working toward the goal of purchasing Marcel Breuer’s house in Wellfleet, MA. The project aims to raise $1.4 million to secure and prevent the demolition of the home,
The 18th Docomomo International Conference will take place in Santiago, Chile, in December 2024 with the overarching theme “Modern Futures: Sustainable development and cultural diversity.”
This small but exquisite exhibition, housed within MoMA’s 1880–1940s Collection, looks at how North America’s sprawling factory complexes and monumental grain silos of the early 1900s transfixed a generation of European architects, sparking a revolution in architecture and design.
The Historical Studies and Social Sciences Library at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, designed by Wallace K. Harrison is under serious threat.
Visit our Vimeo page for recordings of selected DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State lectures and book talks. Spring programs on Walter Gropius and G.E. Kidder Smith just added!
Pics from “Complexities of the Modern American City,” the 2023 Docomomo National Symposium in New Haven, CT. The largest ever.
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.
Docomomo International recently added five country-level working parties: Bahrain, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. The organization now counts 77 working parties and more than 3,000 international-level members.
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.