Events and News from DOCOMOMO
DOCOMOMO US New York/Tri-State
Visit the website at http://www.docomomo-us.org/
The chapter’s general email is: [email protected]
October 2007
DOCOMOMO New York/Tri-State co-sponsored event:
Donald Albrecht on Saarinen’s Bell Labs Campus
Tuesday October 30, 7:30 pm, Holmdel, NJ
DOCOMOMO US New York/Tri-State, as co-sponsor, invites you to a lecture by Donald Albrecht on the architecture and landscape design of Eero Saarinen’s Bell Labs. Albrecht, co-curator of the current international exhibition “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future,” will place this landmark corporate campus in the context of Saarinen’s career as an instigator of new paradigms for postwar American life through his work for Bell Telephone and other leading American corporations.
The lecture has been arranged by a coalition of national and regional preservation groups responding to proposed redevelopment plans that put the Bell Labs site at risk. It is being hosted by Holmdel, NJ-based Citizens for Informed Land Use. The coalition includes DOCOMOMO US New York/Tri-State, Preservation New Jersey, National Trust for Historic Preservation, DOCOMOMO-US, Recent Past Preservation Network, The Cultural Landscape Foundation and AIA-New Jersey.
Location: Holmdel Senior Center, 4 Crawford’s Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ.
Free. For more information, contact Preservation New Jersey at [email protected]
http://preservationnj.org/news_events/news_events.asp
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Scroll down for details on the following:
NEWS:
–O’Toole Building: Post-event update
TOURS:
— New Canaan Modern House Day (11/3)
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
— Book signing: Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered (Taschen, 10/16)
— Architecture Movie Night: Collins/Kaufmann Forum (Columbia Univ, 10/17)
— Panel + opening: Built in Uncertainty: Unpacking the Shadrach Woods Archive (Columbia Univ, 10/17)
— Lecture: Overturning Hierarchies: Modernist Entrances, Mary McLeod (NYSID, 10/24)
— Exhibition: New York Modern (The Skyscraper Museum, 10/24)
— Panel: Women in Modernism: Making Places in Architecture (MoMA, 10/25)
— Book Launch: Tony Wood’s Preserving New York (MCNY, 11/5)
— Lecture: “Promoting the USA to European Architects,” Collins/Kaufmann Forum (Columbia Univ, 11/12)
Plus ONGOING EVENTS and SHOPPING
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NEWS:
O’Toole Building: Bold, Modern and in the Village
DOCOMOMO New York/Tri-State’s September event “Albert Ledner: Buildings for the National Maritime Union,” brought together nearly 80 people to hear Albert Ledner talk about his mid-century work, particularly the O’Toole Building at 7th Avenue and 13th Street. The building has been owned by St. Vincent’s Hospital since 1973 and is at risk of demolition in the hospital’s current redevelopment plan. More details about the plan are expected mid-October. In the meantime you can learn more about the building—which is part of the Greenwich Village Historic District—by reading DOCOMOMO’s “backgrounder.” The 10-page backgrounder includes a history of the building, commentary surrounding the opening in 1964, biographical material on Albert Ledner, historical and current photos and more.
A PDF file of the backgrounder will be available for download on the DOCOMOMO US website next week. Visit:
http://www.docomomo-us.org/
TOURS:
New Canaan Modern House Day—Tour & Symposium
The New Canaan Historical Society’s 2007 Modern House Day Tour & Symposium will feature interior tours of five modern houses rarely seen by the public and exterior visits of two others. An epicenter of the Modern movement in the US, New Canaan is home to more than 70 houses that helped shape architecture from the 1940s onwards. This year’s tour includes houses by some of the movement’s most notable practitioners: industrial designer and Harvard Five architect, Eliot Noyes; internationally recognized architect, Edward Durell Stone; Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin Fellow, John Howe; and noted modern architects, John Black Lee and Victor Christ-Janer. Speakers at the morning symposium include: architectural critic and writer, John Morris Dixon; Harvard Five architect John Johansen; modern furniture designer, Jens Risom; Boston architect and modern house owner, Frederick Noyes; and New York architect, Peter Gluck who will address the place of Modern architecture, past and present. The all day event includes continental breakfast, the symposium, lunch, the house tour (via mini bus) and an evening cocktail reception with architects, modern house owners, journalists and preservationists.
Saturday November 3
New Canaan, CT (accessible via Metro North)
Cost: $250 (partially tax deductible)
New Canaan Historical Society
Space is limited. Call the Historical Society to reserve
(203) 966-1776; email: [email protected]
http://www.nchistory.org/spevents.htm#Modern_House
EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS:
The Master of Modern: Julius Schulman, Modernism Rediscovered – book signing
Following up on its stunning visual collection Modernism Rediscovered (2000), Taschen is back with a three-volume set of Julius Schulman’s highly crafted images of Modern architecture titled Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered. Schulman began documenting Modern architecture in California in 1936. His photographs are among the most recognizable and iconic architectural photographs of the 20th century. Images for the 1,000+ plus-page volume were drawn from Shulman’s personal archive of over 260,000 photographs. Schulman, who is still shooting, will be on hand at the event to sign copies of the book.
Tuesday October 16, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Taschen Store New York
107 Greene Street
(212) 226-2212
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/04404/facts.julius_shulman_modernism_rediscovered_3_vols.htm?utm_source=tas&utm_medium=nl&utm_campaign=shulman&flash=TRUE
Architecture Movie Night
Films will include “Man with a Movie Camera” (1929) and several shorts featured in the 2006 Victoria & Albert Museum show, “Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939.” Tim Benton, a visiting professor at Columbia University from the Open University in London, will give short introductions to each film. If you missed the Modernism show when it was in DC this is your chance to see what many reviewers considered the highlight of the exhibition.
Tuesday October 16, 7:15 pm
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, Broadway @ 116th
Presented by Collins/Kaufmann Forum for Modern Architectural History
Free
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory
“Build in Uncertainty”: Unpacking the Shadrach Woods Archive—opening + panel
trained architect who worked with Le Corbusier on the Unité d’Habitation housing in Marseille and later went on to design modern housing in France and throughout North Africa. Shadrach was a theorist, urban planner, writer and member of Team 10. Returning to the US in 1969, he taught at Harvard and Yale Universities before his death in 1973. In connection with the opening of the exhibition “ ‘Build in Uncertainty’: Unpacking the Shadrach Woods Archive,” Columbia University’s GSAPP will present a panel discussion on the contents and significance of the Woods archive. Participants include GSAPP professors Kenneth Frampton, Reinhold Martin, Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman and Felicity Scott; and exhibition curators Brad Walters and Elsa Lam.
Wednesday October 17, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/gsap/1/12/0/7/&program=
Exhibition runs through December 7
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University
Gallery Hours: 12pm – 6pm. Monday – Friday
New York Modern—exhibition
“New York Modern,” the first of three related exhibitions, looks back at prophecies of the skyscraper city in the early 20th century when the first dreams of a fantastic vertical metropolis took shape. The inspiration and motivation for these prophecies was the city itself–its soaring buildings, teeming streets, and hurtling subways. Curated by Skyscraper Museum director Carol Willis, “New York Modern” explores the idea of the skyscraper city of the future in the context of the period’s phenomenal urban expansion, pressing problems of congestion, and new tools for planning and control, such as setback zoning. Three key personalities shape the debate in architectural circles–Raymond Hood, Harvey Wiley Corbett and Hugh Ferriss–and offer alternative models for a future city of towers.
October 24 through March 2008
The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place, Battery Park City
www.skyscraper.org/NYM
Overturning Hierarchies: The Modernist Entrance
Mary McLeod, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, will give a lecture titled “Overturning Hierarchies: The Modernist Entrance.” The lecture accompanies the New York School of Design’s current exhibition “Making an Entrance,” which, in photographs and commentary, explores the history and evolution of the entrance in architecture with a particular emphasis on the classical tradition and the Modern movement. McLeod’s research and publications have focused on the history of the Modern movement and on contemporary architecture theory, examining issues concerning the connections between architecture and ideology. She is co-editor of Architecture, Criticism, Ideology and Architecture Reproduction, and author of Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living (Abrams, 2003).
Wednesday October 24, 6:00pm
New York School of Interior Design
Arthur King Satz Hall; 170 East 70th Street
Free, but advance reservations are required.
RSVP to: 212-472-1500 ext 405; or [email protected]
http://nysid.edu/news/lectures.asp
Women in Modernism: Making Places in Architecture
The Museum of Modern Art is bringing together celebrated female scholars, curators and architects to discuss women who have been extraordinarily influential in forming the identity and legacy of Modern architecture in the US. Barry Bergdoll, chief curator of the Department of Architecture and Design, will moderate.
Thursday October 25, 6:30pm
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
Tickets $10, $8 members, students, seniors
For more information:
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=5685&ref=calendar
Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks—Book Launch
If the history of historic preservation was not already a field in and of its own, it will be with the publication of Tony Wood’s long-awaited book “Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks.” Wood tells the story of the people and places, the buildings and battles, and the policies and politics that, after decades of tragic losses, led New York City to create a legal mechanism to protect the city’s landmarks. The New York Preservation Archive Project and the Museum of the City of New York are hosting a reception and short program of remarks to celebrate publication.
Monday November 5, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 5th Avenue at 104th Street
Co-sponsored by: Historic Districts Council, Historic House Trust, Municipal Art Society, National Trust for Historic Preservation, New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Preservation League of New York State.
$15 for members of sponsoring organizations; $20 for non-members
Reservations required. Call (212) 534-1672, ext. 3395
“America Is the Greatest Advertising Country in the World”
The Collins/Kaufmann Forum for Modern Architectural History presents a lecture titled “‘America Is the Greatest Advertising Country in the World’: Successes and Failures in Promoting the USA to European Architects” by Caroline Maniaque of the Bard Graduate Center and Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage
Monday November 12, 6:15pm
Presented by Collins/Kaufmann Forum for Modern Architectural History
934 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, Broadway @ 116th
Free
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory
ONGOING:
Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
@ the Municipal Art Society through January 5, 2008
http://www.mas.org/viewarticle.php?id=1805&category=13
Design: Isamu Kenmoshi and Isamu Noguchi
@ The Noguchi Museum through March 2008
http://www.noguchi.org/exhibitions.html#futurexhibitions
SHOPPING (two shows and an auction):
The Modern Show: 20th Century Art & Antiques
October 12-14
The Armory; Lexington Avenue @ 26th Street
http://www.stellashows.com/
Modernism: A Century of Style and Design 1900-2000
November 16-19
The Park Avenue Armory; Park Avenue & 67th Street
http://www.sanfordsmith.com/mod_info.html
Sollo Rago Modern Auction
October 27 & 28
Lambertville, NJ
Catalogs online 10/12; previews begin 10/20
http://www.ragoarts.com/
This installment of the list serv prepared by Nina Rappaport and Kathleen Randall