Recent Past Calendar
September
9
The
Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission has recently added
a guided walking tour of the group of Lustrons on 50th and Nicollet.
September 9th at 1pm. http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/hpc/walking-tours.asp
September
28-29
Modern Living/Living
Modern
DOCOMOMO/US, Georgia Chapter
Reception 28 September 2007
Tour 29 September 2007
Join the Georgia Chapter
for a tour of Modern Atlanta homes, including the work of Taliesin
Fellow Robert Green (1935-2003) and Modern apartments in a Modern
Buckhead landmark, Plaza Towers. A reception and panel discussion
Friday evening, 28 September, is followed by a tour of homes Saturday,
29 September, 10 AM – 4 PM.
More details to follow.
For the latest chapter
news, visit www.docomomoga.org/wordpress/
Questions? info@docomomoga.org
For more about Modern Georgia visit www.docomomoga.org
October
12
MISFITS OF MODERNISM
II: PHILADELPHIA STYLE
Take a new look at
historic preservation at the Recent Past Preservation Network’s
“Misfits of Modernism II: Philadelphia Style” benefit.
This event, hosted by the Recent Past Preservation Network and
Design Within Reach, will showcase the brilliant, but largely
unrecognized, works of historic modern architecture and landscape
design in Philadelphia and its surrounds.
The event will feature
a reception, presentations on endangered buildings, and a silent
auction. All proceeds will benefit RPPN’s fight to save
Richard Neutra’s iconic Gettysburg Cyclorama Center. The
1961 Cyclorama Center, a modernist Cold War-era homage to Abraham
Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address, is immediately threatened
with demolition by the federal government as part of a landscape
redevelopment.
Friday, October 12,
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Design Within Reach
– Philadelphia Studio 1710 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
PA 19103
Suggested donation
$15, $10 RPPN members. Invitation to follow. For more information
on the event email framptontolbert@gmail.com
November
10
Drew University's
Historic Preservation Certificate program is pleased to offer
PRESERVING THE RECENT PAST
This one-day workshop will explore architecture of the 20th century.
Is architecture of the recent past really historic? Is it worth
preserving? From High Style to vernacular interpretation, participants
will gain an understanding of the evolution of modern architecture,
focusing on 20th century design and use of modern materials. Using
case studies, the workshop will highlight the specific challenges
in preserving architectural resources from the recent past.
Taught by
the staff of the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office, this
program will cover regulatory and planning issues as well as conservation
challenges specific to modern materials, and take a look at trends
and advocacy from the state and national perspective.
Date: Saturday,
November 10th from 9 am to 4 pm
Location: Madison, NJ
Cost: $100 (lunch included)
For more information,
contact Drew's Continuing Education Office at 973/408-3400 or
owl@drew.edu
http://www.drew.edu/cue/preservation.aspx
November
15
Popular Art, Architecture
and Design Call for Papers
Derham Groves and I
invite interested persons to submit a proposal to the
2008 National Pop/Am Culture Association Annual Conference at
the San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, CA, March 19-22, 2008.
Popular Art, Architecture
and Design is concerned with the aesthetics of popular material
culture in the everyday world of the past, present and future.
Scholars from such disciplines as Architecture, Art History, Fine
Art, Industrial Design, and Interior Design are invited to submit
proposals. At previous conferences topics have included Good Sports,
Model Women, Shopping Malls, Bodies of Work, Mass Media, Place
& Identity, Household Myths & Mysteries and many, many
more. It is truly a broad arena!
Popular Art, Architecture
and Design papers may be published in an e-zine after the conference.
Please e-mail a cover
letter with contact information and 150-word abstract of your
proposed paper to Dr. Loretta Lorance at llorance@earthlink.net
> and Dr. Derham Groves at erham@unimelb.edu.au
The deadline for abstracts is November 15, 2007.
Registration fees apply.
For information about
the Popular Culture/American Culture Association, please go to:
http://www.pcaaca.org/
