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Atlanta architect Joseph Amisano, FAIA died on Saturday April 12. A partner of the firm Toombs, Amisano, & Wells, his work defined the progressive period of post-WWII Atlanta.

AIArchitect Special Edition: Preserving Modern Buildings includes profile of DOCOMOMO/US founding president Theodore H.M. Prudon and article by DOCOMOMO/NE president David E. Fixler.

The Modern movement in architecture produced a body of work of a scale and impact unprecedented in the history of humankind. Modern architecture was the physical manifestation of a broad social and philosophical movement that forever changed the course of human history. At its best, the Modern movement captured a spirit of progress, openness, and an uplifting of the human condition, offering to convert lofty civic ideals into physical reality. These ideas not only reflected the sweeping social and cultural aspirations of the day, but were also a manifestation of a response to the Enlightenment promise of progress that continues to resonate around the world. It is therefore imperative that we continue to take into account the context and essence of this generative philosophy as we formulate preservation strategies, so that they may yield interventions that both reveal and clarify the meaning of the heritage of the Modern movement.

To read the full article on AIArchitect's website, please click on the link below:

http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0307/0307t_fixler.cfm

Theo Prudon is a Dutch-born architect and principal of Prudon & Partners, a firm specializing in restoration. As the founding president of DoCoMoMo/US (The Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites, and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement), Prudon leads the U.S. chapter of the international organization dedicated to preserving Modernist structures. Prudon also is a DoCoMoMo International board member and an adjunct associate professor of historic preservation at Columbia University. His book on the preservation of modern architecture will be released on April 18.

New York Times columnist David Dunlap explores the fate of numerous suburban corporate campuses confronting 21st-century realities, including the battle surrounding Saarinen's Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J.

The potential doom of Honolulu's 1962 IBM Building, designed by the late Vladimir Ossipoff, has some architects lamenting the loss of what they consider a historic icon.

The Phillis Wheatley Elementary School is in danger of demolition by the School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish.

Gwendolyn Wright’s just published USA is the third in Reaktion Books’ new series, Modern Architectures in History, which examines the particular characteristic of some 25 different countries.