Don’t miss this rare opportunity to tour Paul Rudolph’s 1960–1964 Endo Laboratories in Garden City, Long Island. Dan Webre and Sean Khorsandi from the Paul Rudolph Foundation will lead the tour.
The New York Tri-State chapter will be guiding tours of Marcel Breuer’s first two permanent buildings in New York City—campus buildings at Lehman College/CUNY in the Bronx. It’s OHNY and DOOCMOMO Tour Day!
The Met presents the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of Paul Rudolph and showcase the full breadth of Rudolph’s contributions to architecture—from experimental houses in Florida to utopian visions for urban megastructures.
As part of its annual Archtober festival of architecture, AIA NY is leading a tour of the New York Hall of Science Great Hall, designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens
The Glass House is bringing together three renowned pianists—Timo Andres, Aaron Diehl, and Jenny Lin—for a Sunday afternoon concert of Philip Glass’ Etudes in Stamford’s extraordinary modernist First Presbyterian Church.
These two interconnected exhibitions of Myron Goldfinger’s architecture; one at the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture and one at Mitchell Algus Gallery, offer complementary studies of Goldfinger’s work, exploring his built residential projects and his unbuilt and community architecture.
Further afield! Join William Whitaker for a lively journey through Philadelphia area workspace architecture—an architectural heritage that includes the work of Louis I. Kahn, George Nakashima, and Herbert Bayer, and others.
The 4,500 sq ft. interior has been carefully dismantled and is now owned by Finland. Portions of interior and furnishings will be used in a traveling exhibition. While better than private hands or a dumpster, this is a tragic architectural loss for NYC.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania, a new exhibition at the National Building Museum, presents both realized and unrealized projects and examines how FLW’s vision of the future might have impacted urban, suburban, and rural landscapes.
The National Building Museum’s exhibition Capital Brutalism explores the history, current state, and future of seven polarizing buildings and the Metro system in Washington, D.C.
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.