DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State has arranged a rare opportunity to visit one of New York’s earliest and most significant Modern townhouses, now on the market for the first time in over 40 years. And we’re going to make a little party of it to support our advocacy work.
LPC approved with a unanimous vote on May 20. The designation allows this icon of the Brutalist style in NYC to continue to serve a worthy purpose while also protecting the exterior and such renowned interior spaces as the main lobby, stairwell, coat check, and other public areas.
At the Yale Architecture Gallery: the often-overlooked story of the partnership behind the landmarked Tuskegee Chapel, a celebrated yet understudied work of midcentury architecture. It was Paul Rudolph, Louis Fry, Sr., and Col. John Welch. Opens January 9.
DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State is asking the LPC to designate The Church of the Transfiguration, a key piece of Lithuanian American history and culture that is also a modern architecture worth saving.
June 4–5. New Jersey’s History and Historic Preservation Conference is jammed packed with guided tours, workshops, events, a poster showcase, educational sessions, vendor exhibits and continuing education credits. It takes place across Burlington County, NJ.
Join The Historic Districts Council for a tour of the Art Moderne style “T Building,” an award-winning adaptive reuse that transformed the former Triboro Hospital For Tuberculosis in Jamaica, Queens, into a residential building with 200 units of affordable and supportive housing and 20,000 sq.ft. of amenities and community facilities.
The Skyscraper Museum is hosting a virtual book talk on The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City’s Citicorp Tower by Michael Greenburg, which explores the dramatic 1978 effort to secretly fix a critical design flaw in Manhattan’s Citicorp Tower that could have led to its collapse.
James Rose’s 1985 landscape for the Texwipe Corporation—now EarthCam—in Upper Saddle River, NJ, becomes the second Rose-designed landscape on the National Register of Historic Places.
Of course you knew the hit series “Severance” is filmed at Saarinen’s Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. They truck in fake snow.
The 19th International DOCOMOMO Conference will take place in Los Angeles, CA, March 17–22, 2026.
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.
Albania, Croatia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Nigeria and Portugal are newly approved DOCOMOMO International working parties, bringing the total to 80.
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.