The Theodore Prudon Fund for Preservation Education, established by Docomomo US, supports graduate students in historic preservation. The 2025 recipient is Sonya Sehgal, a Master’s student at the University of Texas and the first to receive the award.
(and other dates) Friends of The Lustron House invite visitors to tour a prefabricated enameled steel home located in Closter, NJ. Lustron houses were popular in the postwar era for their innovative construction—everything but the concrete slab was made of steel.
This Architectural Digest video explores an exceptional 1948 Frank Lloyd Wright house in Usonia, NY. Even in the remarkable community of Usonia, the circular forms of the 1948 Bertha and Sol Friedman House, or “Toy Hill”, stand out.
John Arbuckle guides tour participants through an often-overlooked stretch of Manhattan on this Municipal Art Society tour. Lined by International Style skyscrapers, Sixth Avenue north of Bryant Park is described in New York 1960 as “New York’s preeminent Modernist street.”
LPC approved with a unanimous vote on May 20. The designation allows this icon of the Brutalist style in NYC to continue to serve a worthy purpose while also protecting the exterior and such renowned interior spaces as the main lobby, stairwell, coat check, and other public areas.
DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State is asking the LPC to designate The Church of the Transfiguration, a key piece of Lithuanian American history and culture that is also a modern architecture worth saving.
At the Yale Architecture Gallery: the often-overlooked story of the partnership behind the landmarked Tuskegee Chapel, a celebrated yet understudied work of midcentury architecture. It was Paul Rudolph, Louis Fry, Sr., and Col. John Welch. Opens January 9.
James Rose’s 1985 landscape for the Texwipe Corporation—now EarthCam—in Upper Saddle River, NJ, becomes the second Rose-designed landscape on the National Register of Historic Places.
Of course you knew the hit series “Severance” is filmed at Saarinen’s Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. They truck in fake snow.
The 19th International DOCOMOMO Conference will take place in Los Angeles, CA, March 17–22, 2026.
Eight Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses you can book on Airbnb; Arizona to Michigan and one in between.
According to AD magazine, glass block has escaped “trend jail” and is making a comeback in restaurant and residential design.
Albania, Croatia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Nigeria and Portugal are newly approved DOCOMOMO International working parties, bringing the total to 80.
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.