NY Landmarks Conservancy’s 2024 Sacred Sites Open House, with DOCOMOMO NY Tri-State as tour co-sponsor, invites you to Temple Israel, a well preserved Modern synagogue on Staten Island designed by Percival Goodman.
At its March 13, 2024 meeting the DOCOMOMO US/NY Tri-State board voted in its newest member. Welcome Ritika Jharia.
The Village of Southampton is considering designation of important modern houses designed by Ward Bennett, Norman Jaffe, and Myron Goldfinger. DOCOMOMO supports Southampton’s efforts to preserve these architectural legacies.
The NY Tri-State chapter’s scholarship helps two individuals participate in the upcoming Docomomo US 2024 National Symposium. The recipients of this year’s grants are Kimberly La Porte and Susan Singh.
Nominations are open for the 11th Modernism in America Awards presented by Docomomo US. There are three categories: design, inventory/survey, and advocacy. Don’t delay. The deadline is June 7.
To mark the return of Costantino Nivola’s playful concrete horses to their UWS plaza home, Landmark West! is hosting a virtual presentation with Mary Jablonski and Ed FitzGerald two of the conservators who helped bring the horses home.
The Glass House hosts architectural historians Alice Friedman and Timothy Rohan for a conversation about the cultural significance and queer social history of the recently restored Brick House.
Tours at the Glass House will now include the restored Brick House, Philip Johnson’s dramatic pairing to his Glass House. Long closed to the public, the opening coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Glass House.
This study tour offered by the Glass House goes in depth on two seminal Philip Johnson works: The Glass House (1949) and the recently renovated Schlumberger Research Center Administration Building (1951-1952) in Ridgefield, CT.
The 1931 Aluminaire House designed by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher will officially open on the grounds of the Palm Springs Art Museum on March 26.
Philip Johnson’s Brick House (aka Guest House), his opposites attract complement to the Glass House, opens for public tours May 2, 2024 after a comprehensive restoration.
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.