The Yale School of Architecture invites Kieran Long, director of Sweden’s national museum of architecture and design, to discuss the museum’s research on early modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz’s life and his significance in Swedish modernist history.
Napoleone Ferrari and Michelangelo Sabatino will discuss the life and work of Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino in this virtual lecture organized by the Yale School of Architecture.
For their first tour of 2022, Iconic Houses takes participants on a virtual tour of Roland Reisley’s Usonian House in Pleasantville, NY. Reisley still lives in the home and is the last living client of Frank Lloyd Wright.
This Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy talk explores the context of intellectual property rights in 19th- and 20th-century architecture practice on both sides of the Atlantic and Frank Lloyd Wright’s work in this arena.
MoMA’s recently opened exhibition, The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985, showcases more than 200 works displaying South Asia’s groundbreaking modern architecture. Key figures are highlighted alongside original sketches, plans, photographs, audiovisual materials, and films.
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and now on view at the Yale School of Architecture, Radical: Italian Design 1965–1985 brings to light the turbulent global events in 1960s Italy when young Italian architects and designers aspired to develop solutions to issues rather than contribute to the “system,” unleashing an era of radicalization that would alter the course of avant-garde architectural thought and design.
Modernism Week, the annual celebration of midcentury modern design, architecture, fashion and culture, is back offering an array of tours, compelling and informative talks, plus evening events. Tours are selling out quickly.
AIA NY and architectural historian John Kriskiewicz take viewers on an in-depth tour through scenes and stills from four films that chronicle the post-war architectural transformation of Park Avenue: The Naked City, The Best of Everything, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
With its current exhibition Cairo Modern as a starting point, this virtual panel discussion presented by AIANY Center for Architecture will focus on the current state of histories of global modernism.