Where to Begin: Organizing 60 years’ Worth of Drawings and Papers; Linda Scinto

‘Powderpuffs’ and the ‘Bloop bloop’ button: Preserving the VSBA digital archive; Allison Olsen

The Problem with Pedestals – The Importance of Project Archives to Preserving Paul Rudolph’s Architecture; Kelvin Dickinson

Modernism at the Corner in Pittsburgh, PA; Brittany Reilly

Modernism in San Francisco’s Chinatown; Hannah Simonson

Broad Street’s Modernist Coming of Age: Temple University’s Late Expansion and the Community-Temple Agreement of 1970; Douglas Schaller

Louis Kahn and the Frank Furness Connection; Izzy Kornblatt

The Philadelphia School, 1950-1965: City, Profession, Education; John Lobell

Revealing Philadelphia’s many ‘Modernities’; George Thomas Kapelos

Philadelphia and Mission 66: Modernism and Preservation in Independence National Historic Park and Beyond; Naomi Kroll

Bye Centennial! Lost Structures of Philly’s 76 Building Boom; Douglas Hassebroek

Adapting Modernist Landscapes: Lessons from Washington D.C; Lee Webb

Theory Follows Photography: the Evolving Gaze of Denise Scott Brown; Pablo Meninato

With American Eyes. Robert Venturi 1948: Discovering Europe; Francesca Sisci

Out of Season: A Decade of Documenting the Wildwoods; Mark Havens

Mid-Century in Color: Using Archives to Reveal a Lost Palette in Palm Springs; Katie Horak

Golden Years in the Sunshine State: Orlando’s Mid-Century High Rise Boom; Caroline Wilson

Educating Citizens: The Pedagogical and Social Context of Oskar Stonorov’s Educational Buildings; Allegra Churchill and Jessica Wolff

Sandburg Village: Urban Renewal on Chicago’s Near North Side; Justin Miller

Gallery Galleria Galerie: Malls as Urban Rooms; Alexandra Lange

Roosevelt Field: A Radical First Shopping Center, 1956, designed by I.M. Pei for Webb and Knapp; Caroline Rob Zaleski

Twilight of the Mall: Victor Gruen, Commerce, and Suburbia; Jeff Hardwick

Making Modern New – Lessons from Guild House and Beyond; Daniel McCoubrey, Seth Cohen, and Brian Wentz

Libraries in Limbo: Examining Renovations of Breuer’s Atlanta Central Library and Mies’ MLK Library; John Poros

The Soul of a Building: George Nakashima’s Arts Building and Cloister; Frank Matero 

North-South Collisions: Modernity and Cubanidad; Jean-Francois Lejuene

The Modern Cuban House Abroad; Victor Deupi

Mario Romanach in Havana and Philadelphia; Monty Freeman

Learning from the Wildwoods; Daniel Vieyra

Reconsidering Modernism through a Social Equity Lens; Ian Smith

Mainstreaming Modern: How Motels Introduced Modernism to the Middle Class; Stephanie Hoagland

The Significance of the Roundhouse; Jack Pyburn

The Roundhouse: A Miracle in Concrete; Carl-Dag Lige

Elizabeth Fleisher and Philadelphia Modernism; Fátima Olivieri-Martinez, AIA 

Soundscapes, Voices, and Places: Podcasting the Pioneering Women of American Architecture; Cynthia Phifer Kracauer

Archiving the history of women who teach: The ‘other’ Philadelphia School at the University of Pennsylvania (1951 –1974), Mimi Lobell, Stanislava Nowicki, and Blanche Lemco; Franca Trubiano

Take an insider’s tour of the new renovation and interior expansion designed by Frank Gehry of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s landmark 1928 building led by their Director of Facilities and Operations, Jane Lawson-Bell. Completed in May 2021, the Gehry project opened up the heart of the building, created 20,000 sf of new galleries, and re-opened a grand 640-foot-long corridor for the first time in 50 years. 

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The undisputed heavyweights of modern architecture on the University of Pennsylvania campus are Louis Kahn’s Richards Medical Research Laboratories (1957-61) and Eero Saarinen’s Hill House Dormitory (1958-60). Each has undergone major renovations that sought to reinforce the cultural significance of the site while adapting to contemporary housing preferences and environmental concerns. These in-depth tours will be led by key members of the design teams who undertook these challenging projects, as well as their counterparts at the University.

Philadelphians were introduced to the value of modern planning in shaping the future of the city during the landmark, Better Philadelphia Exhibition of 1947. This show laid the groundwork for a reform era where public investment in urban renewal and community building brought figures like Edmund Bacon to the forefront of urban design and planning.

Take an immersive stroll along Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway to experience and learn about the public sculpture installations dotting this grand boulevard including the works of three generations of Calders.