DOCOMOMO-US, the organization devoted to the preservation of the architecture, design and sites of the modern movement, is currently hosting a day dedicated to the recognition of local modern architectural landmarks. On June 9, 2007 the Modern Movement Architecture Tour Day will offer tours highlighting modern design in Georgia, Texas, Chicago, the New York Tri-State area, and New England courtesy of the local DOCOMOMO US chapters in these areas. A tour also will be offered by the Western Washington chapter on June 14, 2007...
In Georgia, a walking tour of “Bush-Brown, Gailey, and Heffernan 1935-1960: Modern Architecture Arrives at Georgia Tech” will highlight the architecture of the campus while the North Texas walking tour, “Modernism in Small Town Texas” will showcase the buildings of O’Neil Ford in Denton, Texas.
In Chicago, “Modern Landmarks: Mingling with the Great Ones on Dearborn Street” will visit buildings and sculptures around downtown Chicago, including Mies’s Federal Center and Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City.
In the New York Tri-State area, the day-long bus and walking tour “New Jersey Modern Tour” will see the recent preservation success stories of Eero Saarinen’s Bell Labs and Louis Kahn’s Trenton Bath House, as well as mid-century buildings at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, among others.
In New England, a walking tour of “Downtown Boston Modernism” will view the sights of the Government Center Complex, where the future of Boston City Hall and its plaza remain uncertain, and continue through to the financial district.
The Western Washington tour of “Freeway Park: Exploring the Continuing Legacy of Seattle's Modernist Masterwork” will be held on Thursday, June 14th at 6:00pm. This tour will explore Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadjieva's Freeway Park and review the on-going efforts to revitalize and preserve the park.
All tours will be held Saturday June 9, 2007, with the exception of the Western Washington tour. For further information please contact the appropriate chapter listed below:
DOCOMOMO/Georgia: Thomas Little, [email protected] tel. 404.872.8400
DOCOMOMO/Texas: Gregory S. Ibanez, [email protected]
DOCOMOMO/Chicago Midwest: Laura Knapp, [email protected]
DOCOMOMO/New York/Tri-State: John Arbuckle, [email protected]
DOCOMOMO/New England: David Fixler, [email protected]
DOCOMOMO/WEWA: Eugenia Woo, [email protected]
For more information on the tours, please visit www.docomomo-us.org
DOCOMOMO US is a rapidly expanding union of regional chapters throughout the United States, and one of the 50 plus national chapters of DOCOMOMO, the international organization that promotes the Documentation and Conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement. DOCOMOMO US has been instrumental in the preservation of Aalto’s Kaufmann Conference Center at the Institute of International Education near the United Nations in New York City and other canonical and newly discovered modernist sites throughout the country.
For more information about other activities of DOCOMOMO US, please contact: Theodore Prudon, president of DOCOMOMO US at [email protected] or at [email protected]
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