Events  2022

Saturday
October

29

LocalWalking Tour

Walking Tour: Midtown Modernism and the Park Avenue Corridor

Tour modern sites through Midtown and along Park Avenue with DOCOMOMO NY/Tri-State board member Kyle Johnson and AIA NY. View the highlights from an Art Deco standout through late-Modern and Postmodern.

Wednesday
October

26

DOCOMOMO NY/TRIIn-person Talk

I.M. Pei and Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall: Collaborative Total Architecture for William Zeckendorf, Sr

An in-person talk by Caroline Zaleski who will delve into the fascinating and little known history of Long Island’s Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall—I.M. Pei’s most ambitious and impactful early-career project.

Tuesday
October

25

LocalVirtual Book Talk

Robert A. M. Stern’s Journey in Architecture

The Glass House welcomes Robert A.M. Stern for a free virtual book talk about his memoir, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture. Stern will survey his life, mentors, and his influential role in the field of architecture from the 1960s to the present.

Sunday
October

23

Further Afield Tour

A tour of Raymond Farm and George Nakashima Woodworkers studios

Take a day trip to New Hope, PA, and join the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia for an up close and personal view of the Raymond Farm Center for Living Arts and Design and the George Nakashima Woodworkers Studios.

Sunday
October

23

LocalWalking Tour

Roosevelt Island, New Town, Cornell Tech and Four Freedoms Park

DOCOMOMO NY/Tri-State board member Kyle Johnson leads this AIA NY tour on Roosevelt Island exploring a community planned by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, as well as the more recent Cornell Tech campus.

Thursday
October

20

LocalLecture

J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture — Answering a Call to Action

The New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects, the J. Max Bond Center of City University of New York, and the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee come together to host the  J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture addressing issues important to Bond, including equity, inclusive design, and global cultures, especially in Africa.

Thursday
October

20

LocalTour

Best of New Canaan’s Modern Architecture Tour

New Canaan Museum & Historical Society docents will lead participants on an October4Design tour to The Glass House, SANAA’s Grace Farms, and the Eliot Noyes house and conclude with a reception at the Evans House.

Wednesday
October

19

LocalVirtual Lecture

Hillary Lewis on Philip Johnson and The Glass House

The National Arts Club hosts The Glass House’s Chief Curator & Creative Director Hillary Lewis for a lecture about Philip Johnson and the laboratory and salon for art and architecture he created at The Glass House.

Sunday
October

16

LocalLecture

What New Canaan Gave to Modernism to Give to Us

Join New Canaan Museum & Historical Society’s October4Design event that features architect Robert Dean and New England Home CT Editor in Chief Jenna Talbott for a discussion on how New Canaan humanized the austere and rigorous palette of European modernism and enlivened the postwar suburbs and suburban life.

Saturday
October

15

LocalWalking Tour

Exploring the NY World’s Fair Remnants at Flushing Meadows Corona Park

The New York Adventure Club tour has organized an in depth tour exploring the 1964 NY World’s Fair—a showcase that covered 646 acres, featured over 140 pavilions, had exhibitors from 80 nations and introduced the world to technologies of the future like picture phones.

Friday
October

14

LocalBook Talk

Lunch4design – Modern Migrations: Searching for the Next New Canaan

The New Canaan Museum & Historical Society will host architectural writer David Sokol for a talk exploring themes from his book Hamptons Modern.

Thursday
October

13

Further Afield Event

Palm Springs Modernism Week/October

Modernism Week comes to the fall highlighting midcentury modern architecture, art, interior and landscape design, and vintage culture in the Palm Springs area of Southern California.

Sunday
October

09

Further Afield Tour

Beth Sholom Synagogue Tour

Take a guided architectural tour of Beth Sholom Synagogue, the only synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, with Helene Mansheim of the Beth Sholom Preservation Foundation. This tour is a Docomomo US Tour Day 2022 event.

Saturday
October

08

LocalTour

Visit The Fish 2022

“The Fish Church” in Stamford, CT, designed by Wallace K. Harrison, will host docent-led tours for Docomomo US Tour Day. Visitors will be introduced to the unique sanctuary, the magnificent Visser Rowland organ and the 56-bell carillon.

Saturday
October

08

LocalWalking Tour

Temple Street Garage and Paul Rudolph’s Visions of Renewal

The New Haven Preservation Trust’s Docomomo US Tour Day event will tour Paul Rudolph’s Temple Street Garage and Chapel Square Mall offering insights to unrealized plans, design intentions, material choices, and the longevity of this mammoth utilitarian structure.

Saturday
October

08

Further Afield Tour

Bundy Modern Exhibition, Building and Grounds Tour

Another Docomomo US Tour Day 2022 event: Tour the Bundy Modern building and grounds in Waitsfield, VT, a gem of a gallery designed by Harlow Carpenter and completed in 1962. Carpenter, a Harvard GSD graduate from the days of Gropius, Sert and Breuer, brought some pure International Style to the Vermont woods.

Saturday
October

08

Further Afield Tour

Revisit the Whitehall Mall, a “Shopping Gem of the Golden Era”

For Docomomo US Tour Day 2022, the Society for Commercial Archeology will host a tour of the Whitehall Mall just north of Philadelphia. When it opened in the summer of 1966, it was one of the first enclosed shopping centers in Pennsylvania with air-conditioning and heating, and it was home to 52 stores, a supermarket, and a 1,000-seat movie theater.

Saturday
October

08

LocalTour

Time to tour Beinecke Library at Yale

Take a free tour of the iconic Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library—one of the world’s largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts. It was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill and opened in October of 1963. A Connecticut Docomomo US Tour Day 2022 event.

Monday
October

03

LocalExhibition

SOS Brutalism Exhibition at Yale

The Yale School of Architecture is hosting a traveling exhibition SOS BRUTALISM—Save the Concrete Monsters!, which showcases buildings from the first-ever global survey of Brutalist architecture of the 1950s to the 1970s.

Monday
October

03

LocalBook Talk

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

The Glass House will host design critic Alexandra Lange online for a reading from her new book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, a chronicle of these marketplaces’ cultural ascent.

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