New York Tri-State will host Gwen North Reiss, author of New Canaan Modern: A Preservation History, to explore the momentous chapter of modern architectural history that unfolded in New Canaan starting in the 1990s.
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.
Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecure of Seduction is back in print! Join author Christopher Rawlins and architect Charles Renfro at Rizzoli to discuss Gifford’s legacy in Fire Island Pines and its deep ties to 1960s gay culture and environmental design.
Susan Guerrero speaks about her father, the internationally famous architectural photographer Pedro Guerrero, at a lunch hour talk presented by the New Canaan Museum and Historical Society.
Nominations are open for the 2025 Modernism in America Awards. Now in its 12th year, the awards celebrate the documentation, preservation and reuse of modern buildings, structures and landscapes. Early nomination deadline is Friday, April 25; final deadline May 30.
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.
The NYC LPC has calendared the interior designation of the former Whitney Museum of American Art. A vote should happen by the end of April. In January, three proposed alterations were brought before the Commission for CofA review and successfully resolved.
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.