Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy discuss their new book Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism, a comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism. Our first Modern Conversations event of the year.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 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-war era.
Sotheby’s has plans to renovate the former Whitney Museum designed by Marcel Breuer and his partner Hamilton Smith for its headquarters. While located in the historic district, the building holds no individual landmark or interior protections. Docomomo has been working since last December to change that.
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.
The Met presents the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of Paul Rudolph and showcase the full breadth of Rudolph’s contributions to architecture—from experimental houses in Florida to utopian visions for urban megastructures.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania, a new exhibition at the National Building Museum, presents both realized and unrealized projects and examines how FLW’s vision of the future might have impacted urban, suburban, and rural landscapes.
Albania, Croatia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Nigeria and Portugal are newly approved DOCOMOMO International working parties, bringing the total to 80.
The 19th International DOCOMOMO Conference will take place in Los Angeles, CA, in March 2026.
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.