Docomomo US and the Recent Past Preservation Network (RPPN) former board of directors announce they have reached an agreement to transfer the remaining assets of the Recent Past Preservation Network.

The Preservation Technology Dossier 14, featuring a collection of lectures put on by Docomomo US together with Docomomo International ISC-Technology at the 2015 National Symposium, is now published and available online.

The Dallas firm of Pratt, Box & Henderson was the special topic of conversation on May 24th as over 120 aficionados of architecture and planning assembled to hear a series of talks about the influential firm.

The original Selby Public Library, a.k.a. G.WIZ building is under threat of imminent demolition. Sign the petition and show your support today.

There's still time to register, join a tour, tell a colleague, and finish planning your symposium experience, but hurry - registration closes on September 19.

The Coral Gables Public Safety Building, one of the city's only brutalist buildings,
is facing the threat of demolition by developers.

On August 24, 2018, the Atlanta Fulton Central Library was unanimously nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Docomomo US Northern California (NOCA) Chapter is pleased to announce Nicole D. Santiago as the recipient of the 2018 Travel Grant for Students & Emerging Professionals.

Docomomo US and the Society of Architectural Historians filed a joint position statement on the preservation of the Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown-designed Abrams House (1979) in Pittsburgh, PA.

Tour Day is just around the corner! Check out the August sneak peek of tours and events you can look forward to this October.

I didn’t really realize Harry was a well-known sculptor/designer until I was an adult, so his fame did not affect me growing up. I knew he was doing important work when we would visit the shop and see one of his monumental architectural commissions. The way he spoke about his sculptures with a sort of humble pride, how comfortable he seemed in the shop and how he joked with his assistants all indicated to me that he loved his work.

I was almost two years old when my father’s Petal Table was introduced by Knoll in the Los Angeles showroom in 1960. My father always told us that we must do something we loved as a career, and for him, his love of design was infectious.

It never occurred to me that growing up modern or Ackerman was special. I’m still surprised and touched when people express admiration for my parents and their designs. Like most children of well-known designers, it took me years to realize the significance of their contributions.

Growing up, I didn’t think I liked modernist architecture. I disliked Le Corbusier’s La Tourette, and Mies van der Rohe’s glass boxes, and I didn’t like lifeless gray concrete. It was only in graduate school that I discovered the thinking behind it.

One of the benefits of growing up in a home with a strong and distinctive architectural character is that it almost inevitably imparts an innate sense of design and spatial awareness to the people who live there.

It had all the earmarks of a wake: people dressed in black, lamenting an unexpected loss, then toasting the departed one at a nearby pub. But the mourners in this case were members of Docomomo US/Philadelphia, who gathered on June 28th to protest the rescinding of a familiar site’s historic designation.

In response to AIA’s failure to grant a Twenty-five Year Award this year, the July 2018 Dispatch specifically focuses upon 1993 and provides vignettes to introduce, contextualize, and identify character-defining features of 1990s-era architecture.

1993 in Japan saw the end of an era of excess, of the Japanese miracle, but it also saw the completion of many of the greatest architectural monuments to that period, in an architectural style of such strangeness and intensity, that it stands apart from every period that had come before.

While it felt like nothing was happening, 1993 was arguably the stealth vertex of a parabolic arc from the concerns of Postmodernism to those of our present period.

The focus of this essay is ultimately a brief investigation of architecture of the 1990s, culminating in a list of important works of the last decade of the 20th century, so that we might better comprehend the context within which architecture of that era can be understood and evaluated.