Events  2024

Wednesday
October

30

LocalVirtual Lecture

Louis Kahn’s Last Notebook

Join Yale School of Architecture for a conversation with editor Sue Ann Kahn, architect Louis Kahn’s daughter, about her new publication, a facsimile of Kahn’s private sketchbook from his last year.

Monday
October

28

LocalTour

Archtober Building of the Day: New York Hall of Science

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.

Saturday
October

26

DOCOMOMO NY/TRITour

Paul Rudolph’s Pharmaceutical Fortress: Tour of Endo Laboratories in Garden City, Long Island

Join Paul Rudolph Foundation board members Dan Webre and Sean Khorsandi for a rare tour of Paul Rudolph’s 1960–1964 Endo Laboratories in Garden City, LI.

Thursday
October

24

LocalBook Talk

The Purpose of Preservation: Conservator and Author Rosa Lowinger

Join Planting Fields Foundation for an exciting exploration and conversation on the preservation of historic sites from Rosa Lowinger. The book talk is based on her just-published memoir, DWELL TIME: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair.

Tuesday
October

22

LocalVirtual Lecture

The Modern Concrete Skyscraper: One Shell Plaza, Houston

The Skyscraper Museum hosts Joseph Colaco, who as a young engineer worked directly with Fazlur Khan on Houston’s One Shell Plaza, for a discussion on the engineering principles and refinements that make this concrete skyscraper expressive as both form and structure.

Sunday
October

20

LocalConcert

Glass Etudes—Piano in the Fish Church

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.

Saturday
October

19

DOCOMOMO NY/TRITour

Marcel Breuer Buildings at Lehman College CUNY

In collaboration with Lehman College of the City University of New York, the New York Tri-State chapter will be guiding tours of the two connected buildings on that Bronx campus designed by Marcel Breuer, his first permanent buildings built in New York City.

Friday
October

18

Further Afield Tour

The Sea Ranch Weekend

Docomomo US is hosting a travel tour at The Sea Ranch in California. The tour includes the original development ideas as laid out by Lawrence Halprin, early buildings by Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull and Whitaker, and Joseph Esherick and Associates. Learn how Barbara Stauffacher Solomon’s supergraphics put The Sea Ranch on the map. 

Thursday
October

17

LocalTours

Corporate Campuses – Docomomo US Tour Day Events

Tour Day is back! An annual celebration of modern architecture and design where the public and like-minded organizations across the country participate in a tour or event. Check out what’s on the docket in the Tri-State area.

Thursday
October

17

Further Afield Lecture and optional self-guided tour

9 to 5: Philadelphia’s Postwar Workspace

Presented in partnership with The Athenaeum of Philadelphia and Docomomo US/Greater Philadelphia, join William Whitaker, Curator of the Architectural Archives at Penn’s Weitzman School of Design, for a lively journey through Philadelphia area workspace architecture—an architectural heritage that includes the work of well-known architects like Louis I. Kahn, George Nakashima, and Herbert Bayer, along with an array of fascinating sites from across the region.

Thursday
October

10

LocalExhibition

Circle, Square, Triangle: The Architecture of Myron Goldfinger

This pair of exhibitions on Myron Goldfinger’s architecture at the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture and Mitchell Algus Gallery offer complementary studies of Goldfinger’s work, exploring his built residential projects and his unbuilt and community architecture. Both exhibitions consist of original material uncovered during the indexing of Goldfinger’s estate.

Thursday
October

10

LocalVirtual Lecture

Architectural History of Modern Synagogues

Dive into the architectural and cultural history of mid-century Modern American synagogues, including those by Walter Gropius, Minoru Yamasaki and Frank Lloyd Wright, in this engaging lecture with Professor Emerita of architecture at Texas A&M University, Anat Geva. Presented by the 92nd Street Y.

Tuesday
October

01

LocalExhibition

UMBAU. Nonstop Transformation

This exhibition by the architects von Gerkan, Marg, and Partners presents a selection of more than sixty projects in the firm’s 40 years of UMBAU (conversion) experience as specific examples of current UMBAU practices that deal with the architectural heritage of the 20th century.

Tuesday
October

01

LocalExhibition

Geoffrey Bawa: It Is Essential To Be There

Yale School of Architecture has opened a new exhibition, Geoffrey Bawa: It is Essential to be There, the first major exhibition which draws from the archives to look at the Sri Lankan architect’s practice.

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