Explore the Upper East Side’s rich Modernist legacy on a tour through the East 60s and 70s, where notable 20th-century works stand among the neighborhood’s celebrated historic landmarks. Led by John Arbuckle, President of DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State, the tour highlights residential and institutional buildings by William Lescaze, Philip Johnson, Edward Durell Stone, Paul Rudolph, Gordon Bunshaft of SOM, Marcel Breuer, and others.

Join DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State for a special curator-led tour of Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety at the Center for Architecture, led by exhibition co-curator Barry Bergdoll. Rietveld helped define modern architecture through his innovative furniture, houses, and collaborations with the Dutch De Stijl movement.

Explore modern and contemporary architecture along and near Fifth Avenue, from 42nd to 54th Street, on a Municipal Art Society walking tour led by DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State President John Arbuckle. Following a route from Ada Louise Huxtable’s 1961 guide, the tour highlights landmarks including the former Manufacturers Trust Company, Rockefeller Center, and MoMA’s original building, while examining how many of these sites have changed over time.

In June and July the Guggenheim New York is offering tours focusing on the rich history and structural elements of its landmark building, with insights into Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative materials and design.

MoMA’s Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa is the first major museum exhibition to explore how architecture helped shape the political and cultural transformation of newly independent African nations. Featuring drawings, models, archival images, and newly commissioned photography and video, the exhibition highlights modernist projects across Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon during a defining era of liberation, Pan-Africanism, and cultural experimentation.