One Building One Brew: PSFS Building
One Building One Brew: PSFS Building
Philadelphia, PA
Join us for an exclusive tour of Howe and Lescaze’s PSFS Building, now a Loews Hotel. Experience this National Historic Landmark with architectural historian, Grace Ong Yan, Ph.D. author of “The PSFS Building: Modern Architecture by a Corporate Client,” (in Companions to the History of Architecture…
Thursday, March 14 2019
5:30 PM
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6:30 PM
Docomomo US/PHL Presents "Art in Heritage"
Docomomo US/PHL Presents "Art in Heritage"
Elkins Park, PA
Experience David Hartt: The Histories, the first artist commission to activate Beth Sholom Synagogue’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed National Historic Landmark. Afterward, join a discussion about the design of the synagogue and the role that contemporary art can play in the preservation of modern arc…
Sunday, December 8 2019
1:00 PM
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3:30 PM
One Building One Brew: LOVE Park Welcome Center
One Building One Brew: LOVE Park Welcome Center
Philadelphia, PA
Join Docomomo US/Greater Philadelphia and the APT Delaware Valley Chapter for a joint One Building One Brew where we'll have a limited opportunity to visit the LOVE Park Welcome Center as its rehabilitation nears completion. We'll hear from people working on the project and learn more about this ci…
Thursday, June 27 2019
5:30 PM
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6:30 PM
Tour of Swarthmore College Campus
Tour of Swarthmore College Campus
Swarthmore, PA
The picturesque, historic campus of Swarthmore College has a long, rich tradition of Modernist design. Just two years after the construction of PSFS’s pioneering modernist icon, proposals for Modern structures on the Swarthmore campus emerged. The tour will include Modernist buildings designed for…
Saturday, May 11 2019
10:30 AM
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1:00 PM
The Diversity of Modernism: Tour Day with Docomomo US/PHL
The Diversity of Modernism: Tour Day with Docomomo US/PHL
Philadelphia, PA
Join Docomomo US/PHL in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood for an exclusive tour of the house and garden of famed landscape architect and ecological planner Ian McHarg. Author of the seminal book, Design With Nature (1969), McHarg’s early works and collaborations focused on enhancing the qua…
Saturday, October 12 2019
2:30 PM
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5:00 PM
Modern Worship: A self-driving tour of Philadelphia-area modern houses of worship
Modern Worship: A self-driving tour of Philadelphia-area modern houses of worship
Philadelphia, PA
Enjoy a self-driving tour of five modern architecture houses of worships in the greater Philadelphia region. A knowledgable architect or architectural historian will offer insight and historical significance to each of our tour sites. We will start with the Vincent Kling designed former Christ Cha…
Sunday, October 15 2023
1:00 PM
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7:00 PM
Neutra in the Neighborhood: a visit to two of Richard Neutra's Philadelphia suburban houses
Neutra in the Neighborhood: a visit to two of Richard Neutra's Philadelphia suburban houses
Norristown, PA
Take a self-driven tour led by Penn Architectural Archives Curator and Collections Manager William Whitaker of two of Richard Neutra's Philadelphia suburban designed homes. We will start at the 1956 home designed (with Thaddeus Longsretch) for Dr. Frank and Betty Miller in Norristown and then trave…
Saturday, April 29 2023
1:00 PM
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4:00 PM
One Parkway, One Pour: A Modern Walking Tour of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
One Parkway, One Pour: A Modern Walking Tour of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA
Join Penn Architecture Archives Curator William Whitaker for a walking tour along the Parkway learning all about the modern architects and their buildings who line both sides of the street. We will conclude the tour at the Victory Brewing Company where the first pour is on us!
Thursday, June 1 2023
6:00 PM
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7:30 PM
Tour of the Raymond Farm
Tour of the Raymond Farm
New Hope, PA
Join the Docomomo US/Greater Philadelphia Chapter for an in-depth tour of the home and studio of Antonin and Noémi Raymond. The Raymonds’ international careers, which spanned from the 1910s through the 1970s, included the practice of architecture as well as furniture, textile designs, lighting, and…
Saturday, June 12 2021
2:00 PM
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5:00 PM
Tour of Richards Medical Research Laboratories
Tour of Richards Medical Research Laboratories
Philadelphia, PA
Richards Medical Research Laboratories was designed by acclaimed Philadelphia architect Louis I. Kahn in 1957-1958. At the time of its completion, it was hailed as a masterpiece of modern architecture and was featured in an exhibit at MoMA in 1961. At the same time, it did not support biomedical re…
Tuesday, December 11 2018
5:30 PM
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7:00 PM
