DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State is now accepting applications for our Preserving the Recent Past 4 Students and Emerging Professionals Grant. Docomomo US is partnering with the Historic Preservation Education Foundation to host the 2025 conference. This event will be in lieu of the National Symposium.
PURPOSE
The DOCOMOMO US/NY Tri-State Grant provides financial support for students and emerging professionals committed to the documentation and conservation of Modern Movement buildings, landscapes, and sites. The intent of this year’s scholarship is to enable two individuals to participate in the Preserving the Recent Past 4 conference in Boston, MA, March 19-22, 2025.
GRANT
The 2025 DOCOMOMO US/NY Tri-State Grant provides a single grant (up to $1,200) for related expenses to attend Preserving the Recent Past 4, including (but not limited to):
Grant recipient will be responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodations. DOCOMOMO US/NY Tri-State will provide 50% of the grant ($600) upfront when the recipient is selected in February. The remainder of the award will be granted upon receipt of the recipient’s travel expenses and completion of reporting requirements.
ELIGIBILITY
The scholarship is open to current undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students enrolled in established institutions of higher learning, as well as emerging professionals who have graduated within the past five years.
Applicants are asked to demonstrate their committed interest in the fields of history, architectural preservation, architecture, landscape architecture or related disciplines and how attendance at the symposium will meaningfully advance their goals or work. Applicants actively engaged in issues concerning the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement may be given preference. “Documentation” may be in the form of research or scholarship, such as thesis or class projects, related to architecture, design, or planning topics associated with the 20th-Century Modern Movement. Preference will be given to applicants studying, working or residing in the New York, New Jersey or Connecticut or currently or previously engaged on topics related to the New York Tri-State region’s Modern Movement.
HOW TO SUBMIT
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DEADLINE: Sunday, January 19, 2025 11:59 pm ET
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking Preserving the Recent Past conference series and the founding of Docomomo US, PRP4 will provide a national forum to share the latest strategies for identifying, protecting, and conserving significant structures and sites from the post-World War II era. Public and private stakeholders are invited from across the spectrum of preservation, non-profit, and development organizations: specialists in architectural conservation, cultural landscapes, and history, as well as owners and site managers, design and construction professionals, planners, government officials, educators and students, and fans of postwar cultural resources.
Co-organized by Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the Boston Architectural College, the program will include three tracks of presentations on advocacy challenges and preservation strategies, history and context and technical conservation issues and solutions for post-World War II resources, to take place on Thursday, March 20 and Friday, March 21, 2025.
In addition to the paper sessions, there will be additional opportunities for full- and half-day tours to visit preservation and recent past sites throughout the area, as well as a documentation training workshop on Wednesday, March 19 and Saturday, March 22, 2025. Docomomo US and its local New England chapter will take part in the paper selection process and will take the lead in organizing the conference tours.
Boston has a compelling concentration of modern and postmodern buildings, and presents a unique opportunity to explore many facets of recent past preservation–from the challenging legacy of urban renewal to opportunities for sustainable reuse and beyond.
To learn more about the conference, visit the PRP 4 conference webpage
Read reflections of the 2024 event by grantees Kimberly La Porte and Susan Singh.
Photos in graphic, clockwise: Boston City Hall/Government Center, 1968, Kallman, McKinnell & Knowles. Photo: CommonKnowledgeCreator/Wikipedia; Design Research Headquarters, 1969, Benjamin Thompson & Associates. Photo: John Arbuckle; Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, NH, 1971, Louis Kahn. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith/Wikipedia.