The Otto and Eloise Spaeth House, designed in 1956 by George Nelson and Gordon Chadwick, has been demolished. The shingle-style house was known for its rear, oceanside shingle wall. All that remains is the home’s support structure. Read the full story reported by Docomomo US.
Sotheby’s has acquired the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Marcel Breuer designed building on Madison Avenue with plans to transform the building into a flagship gallery open to the public and the company’s new headquarters. The deal is rumored to be $100 million with a move in slated for 2025 after some of the interior spaces are reimagined for salesroom function.
Nominations are set to open for the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize on June 29. The biennial prize for which Knoll is founding sponsor will be awarded this fall to an architect, urban designer/planner, or other design professional or firm, to recognize an innovative intervention that preserved and saved a threatened Modern building or complex.
Learn more about landscape theorist, author and practitioner James Rose by volunteering as an intern or docent at the James Rose Center this Fall. Interns and docents contribute to the maintenance and rehabilitation of the Center and may have the opportunity to live at the Center.
Modern architecture + Wellness. This summer, the James Rose Center is hosting weekly wellness sessions. Start your Friday mornings with an easy guided mindfulness and meditation session or join on Wednesday and Saturday mornings for aVinyasa flow yoga class followed by a centering meditation.
The archive offers recordings of lectures and talks on Modern architecture organized by the New York Tri-State chapter of Docomomo US, including the “Modern Conversations” series. The selections date from 2020 forward and do not include all the programs presented.