DOCOMOMO NOLA is proud to partner with AIA New Orleans to present Modernist
Architecture Along and Around St Charles Avenue: A Bicycle Tour.
date: Saturday
October 1, 2011
starts: 2pm, AIA New Orleans, 1000 St. Charles Avenue
ends: 5pm, House of Tomorrow - Wisznia Residence, near Audubon Park
This unique architecture tour of notable and noteworthy Modern architecture buildings along Saint Charles Avenue will begin at 2pm at AIA New Orleans Center for Design, on Lee Circle, and culminate with a reception at the residence of architect Marcel Wisznia - a House of Tomorrow (1936, Moise Goldstein, architect, Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, designer).
Visitors and locals alike appreciate the Gilded Age
architecture along the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line. This bicycle
tour narrated by Tulane School of Architecture professor John Klingman
will introduce the very fine St. Charles modernist buildings that the
guidebooks omit and many locals ignore. Featured architects include
Charles Colbert; Curtis & Davis; Favrot & Reed; Moise Goldstein
& Associates; August Perez; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Leonard
Spangenberg; and Weiss, Dreyfous & Seiferth. Some of the tour's
highlights are included on the DOCOMOMO NOLA iphone app.
Note - this is a 'one-way' tour, beginning at Lee Circle
and ending in Uptown, by Audubon Park.
Registration: This tour is
limited to 50 people. Continuing Education Credits Apply.
$35 General Public
$25 AIA New Orleans/Docomomo NOLA members
$15 Students
This tour is dedicated to the memory of architect and historian Samuel Wilson, Jr. in honor of the centennial of his birth. We are especially grateful for Wilson’s seminal survey of 20th-century architecture in A Guide to Architecture of New Orleans 1699-1959.
[Unity Temple, Leonard Spangenberg architect, 1960-61; photo: Stephanie Day, Tulane School of Architecture New Orleans Virtual Archive]
Docomomo US is thrilled to announce the Philip Johnson Glass House as a partner for the fifth annual Docomomo US Tour Day. Located in lush New Canaan, Connecticut, the Glass House is a National Trust Historic Site and offers its 47-acre campus as a catalyst for the preservation and interpretation of modern architecture, landscape, and art, as well as a canvas for inspiration and experimentation honoring the legacy of Philip Johnson (1906-2005) and David Whitney (1939-2005).
Eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the Civic Arena (Mellon Arena) was rejected by the Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission and Planning Commission. On June 28th, the Pittsburgh City Council voted 6-3 to reject city historic designation, allowing the Sports and Exhibition Authority to move forward with plans to demolish the structure.
Glenbrook Valley, the subject of last year's "Mad About Mod" tour given by friend organization Houston Mod during Tour Day 2010, has been designated a local historic district. The residential neighborhood is made up of 1,255 tracts of post-WW II housing, the largest post-war locally designated historic district in the country, and the first of its kind in Texas.
Docomomo US seeks to elevate awareness of the buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement by profiling like-minded organizations across the country. This month we spotlight the Los Angeles Conservancy's Modern Committee, headed by Regina O'Brien, Chair. Active for over 25 years, the Modern Committee has been instrumental in the preservation of modern architecture in the Los Angeles area including the Capitol Records Building, Century Plaza Hotel and the Golden State Mutual Building, among others.
Tomorrow's Houses: New England Modernism 
Name this building and architect for a chance to win a prize from the DOCOMOMO archives.
DOCOMOMO US/Louisiana reports that less than 24 hours after receiving notice from RSD Superintendent John White, demolition of the historic Phillis Wheatley Elementary School(Charles Colbert, 1954) in the Treme-Lafitte neighborhood of New Orleans began late Friday afternoon, June 17.
DOCOMOMO US/Chicago-Midwest details the recent events organized to raise public awareness about the importance of Bertrand Goldberg's threatened iconic cloverleaf-shaped building, including last week's "SAVE PRENTICE" rally outside the building in Chicago.
For two days in early April 2011 the DOCOMOMO US Board convened in Los Angeles to both investigate and promote the organization’s national growth. To conclude the weekend the group visited three John Lautner-designed homes, led by Lautner archivist and author Frank Escher.
DOCOMOMO US/Louisiana announces the release of their new mobile application New Orleans Regional Modernism. A project of the chapter and Tulane University, the free location-based app allows users to browse modern buildings in New Orleans by architect, neighborhood, category and status.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History
Luigi Moretti: Le ville disegni e modelli
We are pleased to announce Docomomo International Journal 43 Brasilia has been distributed to our international members. Journal 43 includes essays and articles discussing the monumental project that architecturally reshaped Brazil and influenced planning and urban design around the world.
