A Night at the Movies, Stardust: A Story About Love and Architecture
Apr
21
6:00 PM18:00

A Night at the Movies, Stardust: A Story About Love and Architecture

A Night at the Movies
🎬 Stardust: A Story About Love and Architecture

⏰ Meet at Pinwheel Provisions
6:00pm - 7:00pm ET
⏰ Film at BMFI
7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

🔗 Buy tickets directly from Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Filmed over a decade by their son, this funny, moving documentary chronicles the fifty-year love story and creative partnership between Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, whose embrace of complexity, symbolism, and the lessons of the everyday landscape changed the course of architecture.

Directors Jim Venturi and Anita Naughton will join us for a post-film conversation.

Feel free to meet up with fellow docomomo-phl members at 6:00pm at @pinwheelprovisions located next to Bryn Mawr Film Institute for a coffee and a nosh prior to the film.

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Architecture Culture Tour in New York
Apr
25
7:45 AM07:45

Architecture Culture Tour in New York

  • Meeting Point in King of Prussia, PA, for Executive Mini Bus (map)
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Join AAPIDA Philadelphia and Docomomo PHL for a curated Day Trip to New York with transportation provided on an executive mini bus.

Enjoy a private tour of The Noguchi Museum in Queens, lunch at Café at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island (paid by guests), and a visit to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park by Louis Kahn. The day will be enriched with insights from Bill Whitaker, Director and Curator of the Architecture Archives, University of Pennsylvania and Docomomo PHL Executive Board member.

 

Limited tickets available.
Sign up and register.

Tickets Available:
$125 for AAPIDA + Docomomo Members includes 2 tours and bus
$150 for Non-Members includes 2 tours and bus
$50 for Tours Only, Meet us at the Noguchi Museum in NY

Itinerary:

7:45am
Meeting Point at 143 S Gulph Rd, King of Prussia, PA
Commuter parking lot by bus stop, next to Penn DOT Driver License Center
Executive mini bus will drive the group to New York

11:30am - 12:30pm
Private Tour of Noguchi Museum in Queens, NY
9-01 33rd Rd (at Vernon Blvd), Long Island City (Astoria), NY 

1:00pm - 1:45pm

Lunch at Cafe at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, NY

2 W Loop Rd, New York, NY

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Tour of Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park designed by architect Louis Kahn

1 FDR Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island, NY

3:30pm

Executive mini bus departs from Roosevelt Island to King of Prussia, PA

6:00pm
Arrival at 143 S Gulph Rd, King of Prussia, PA 

 

 

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Architecture in the Raw: The Past, Present and Future of Brutalism Symposium
Feb
27
12:00 PM12:00

Architecture in the Raw: The Past, Present and Future of Brutalism Symposium

  • Thomas Jefferson University DEC Forum (map)
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Docomomo Philadelphia together with Thomas Jefferson University’s Center for the Preservation of Modernism is holding this Symposium to study the current state of Brutalist architecture today.

Thank you to our sponsor Voith & Mactavish Architects

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A Study of a Stunning Stonorov
Feb
15
12:00 PM12:00

A Study of a Stunning Stonorov

  • 2585 Charlestown Road Phoenixville, PA, 19460 United States (map)
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Tour and learn more about this 1800 farmhouse and that was transformed by pioneering modernist Oscar Stonorov in the 1940s bringing his vision alive in every line of the home, blurring the boundaries between structure and landscape, as floor-to-ceiling windows frame a protected, unchanged panorama of rolling hills and wooded valleys. Learn more about Stonorov and his contributions to modern architecture — especially in Philadelphia — from Bill Whitaker, director and curator of the Architecture Archives at the University of Pennsylvania. Light Refreshments will also be served.

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Reimagine The Roundhouse Symposium
Oct
29
12:00 PM12:00

Reimagine The Roundhouse Symposium

A Symposium Looking at Reusing, Repurposing and Reinvigorating the Modern Marvel

Sponsored by docomomo-phl chapter and the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

Be part of the conversation on the Roundhouse’s future!

We are excited to announce the six teams selected to present their adaptive reuse concepts for the Roundhouse at the symposium!

  • Design Advocacy Group

  • Ian Smith Design Group

  • KieranTimberlake

  • Parallel Architecture Studio

  • RVA Architecture

  • SSPJ Design

These teams were chosen from over 30 submissions for their creativity, preservation sensitivity, and responsiveness to community needs. Each proposal offers a unique vision for how the Roundhouse could be reimagined as a vital part of Philadelphia’s urban fabric.

Be part of the conversation on the Roundhouse’s future! Join us on Wednesday, October 29, from 12-6 PM, at WHYY for the symposium featuring:

  • Presentations from selected design teams

  • Insightful keynote from Alan Greenberger

  • Final word from Inga Saffron

  • Poster displays of other submitted concepts

  • A networking reception

Submitted to AIA CES for approval 

Reserve your spot today and be part of shaping the Roundhouse’s next chapter.

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