In the 1990s and early 2000s New Canaan’s Modern houses were quietly being demolished. A groundswell of efforts changed that course and is captured in a new book by Gwen North Reiss. Learn more at this Glass House Presents event.
and Sept 28. Join us at the Architecture and Design Film Festival NY for a screening of New England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century, a film by Jake Gorst and Tracey Rennie Gorst/Mainspring Narrative Films.
The 4,500 sq ft. interior has been carefully dismantled and is now owned by Finland. Portions of interior and furnishings will be used in a traveling exhibition. While better than private hands or a dumpster, this is a tragic architectural loss for NYC.
Join Docomomo US in celebrating Docomomo US founding president Theodore Prudon—Architect. Author. Educator. Preservation expert—and the launch of the Theodore Prudon Fund for Preservation Education of Docomomo US.
Docomomo US is hosting a weekend travel tour at The Sea Ranch in California October 18–20. The names: Halprin, Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker, Esherick and more. And Barbara Stauffacher Solomon’s supergraphics! Registration deadline: AUGUST 31.
The Carl Fisher House, a 1920s Dutch Colonial mansion now part of the Montauk Historical Society’s collection of museums, is showcasing a full-scale interior of a 1960s Leisurama house. All kinds of sixties fun. See it before Labor Day.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s traveling photographic exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Dan Kiley is on view at Bell Works in Holmdel, NJ.
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.
The National Building Museum’s exhibition Capital Brutalism explores the history, current state, and future of seven polarizing buildings and the Metro system in Washington, D.C.
This MoMA exhibition presents these sometimes conflicting visions of modernity proposed by designers of home environments in Latin America between 1940 and 1980.
Pics from “Complexities of the Modern American City,” the 2023 Docomomo National Symposium in New Haven, CT. The largest ever.
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.