Docomomo US, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting modern architecture and design, announced the winners of the 2017 Modernism in America Awards program this week.
This book, edited by Amy L. Arnold and Brian D. Conway, makes the case that Modernist architecture and design was developed in Michigan, not imported from Europe.
Architect Michael Schwarting and Frances Campani, his wife and business partner, have salvaged and rebuilt Lawrence Kocher's Modernist masterpiece, the Aluminaire House.
Renovations of the Hall of Science in Queens, New York; the Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania; the Greeley Memorial Laboratory at Yale; and the Manton Research Center at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
The city of Columbus, Indiana, isn’t just one of the most architecturally-rich places in the United States—it’s also among the most overlooked. Where else can one find works by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Richard Meier, Kevin Roche, and I.M. Pei, all in thirty square miles? Landmark Columbus, a new preservation group established last year, has been working to elevate the city’s cultural status through the first annual Exhibit Columbus—an “exploration of architecture, art, design, and community” that kicked off September 29.
