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Our 2025 Annual Theme: Places of Worship

Interior view of North Shore Congregation Israel; Architect: Minoru Yamasaki

Credit

C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois Chicago.

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Our 2025 Annual Theme: Places of Worship

December 19, 2024

Article

October 15, 2025

Restoring Mendelsohn, Building Community: The Adaptive Reuse of Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights

A case study for other postwar synagogue designers, Park Synagogue is now becoming an important precedent in the preservation and adaptive reuse of Modernist sacred places.

Special Edition, Places of Worship

Article

October 15, 2025

North Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana

North Christian Church and its site are in transition from a house of worship to a secular purpose, as part of a public library system. This presents an intriguing opportunity and challenge for creative solutions highlighting the unique design by Eero Saarinen and his colleagues, while devising appropriate designs for the new use.  

Newsletter, Columbus, Annual Theme

Article

October 14, 2025

Crosses of Chicago

Crosses of Chicago is a series of photographs by Kim E. Lovely that documents 30 storefront churches that were located throughout the South and West sides of Chicago between 2005 and 2007. The series captures the bold graphic aesthetic of storefront churches, including hand-painted Latin crosses, signage, and graphic facades.

Newsletter, Special Edition, Places of Worship

Press release

September 23, 2025

Open Call: 2026 Student Board Position

Docomomo US is currently seeking qualified applicants to contribute to the ongoing leadership of the organization as a one year student board member – starting on January 1, 2026, and ending on December 31, 2026 – the term is potentially renewable for one year at the discretion of the board.

Newsletter, U.S. Board

News

September 16, 2025

Embarcadero Plaza and Vaillancourt Fountain Threatened with Demolition

San Francisco aims to demolish Embarcadero Plaza and Vaillancourt Fountain as part of the Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park Renovation Project, an initiative kickstarted by private interests.

Endangered, Advocacy

News

September 09, 2025

Victor Lundy's Texas home in danger

A coalition of advocates have come together to urge the new owners of Victor Lundy's home and studio in Bellaire, Texas to abandon plans to deconstruct the house.

Endangered, Advocacy

News

September 02, 2025

Docomomo US Response on Executive Order

Docomomo US recent response to the Trump Executive Order to make ‘Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’.

News

August 11, 2025

Summer 2025 Real Estate Roundup: Modern Homes on the Market

It’s our annual survey of the Modern real estate marketplace, where in we hope to connect modern homes with new stewards who will uphold each property's original integrity.

Newsletter, modern architecture, Real Estate

News

August 05, 2025

Modern Design and the World’s First Nuclear-Powered Merchant Ship

The Nuclear Ship Savannah is not only the world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship but also served as a floating showcase of mid-century American art and design. Now, not only can visitors experience the restored modern passenger areas like the dining room, staterooms, veranda and main lobby, but they can also walk inside the former reactor space, which has been outfitted with interpretive displays to aid in understanding how a nuclear reactor works. 

News, Newsletter

Article

July 15, 2025

Special Edition: Places of Worship Vol. 1

The Docomomo US Annual Theme “Places of Worship” profiles and explores the rich array of postwar Modern religious buildings that can be found in almost every community across the nation. It’s worth noting from the start that these buildings house worship, yes, but often much more.

Annual Theme, Special Edition, Places of Worship

Article

July 14, 2025

Faith in Flight: Preserving the Modernist Majesty of the USAF Academy Cadet Chapel

Architect Walter Netsch was only 34 when handed the monumental task of designing the Cadet Chapel – a centerpiece in the bold new vision for the United States Air Force Academy. The commission was unprecedented in scale: a Cold War-era project involving cadet quarters for 8,000, a hospital, an airfield, academic and administrative complexes, a court of honor, and more. Over 340 firms competed for the honor, but it was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) that won the contract on July 23, 1954.

Newsletter, Annual Theme, Special Edition, Places of Worship

Article

July 14, 2025

Henry Slaby: Regional Catholic Modernist

In 2023, the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), the Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee launched a project to survey Milwaukee’s 20th-century houses of worship. The survey had one unexpected outcome, however – the discovery of a relatively unknown architect whose work extended beyond the geographic boundaries of Milwaukee: Henry R. Slaby, AIA. Slaby (1906-1995) was born in Milwaukee and apprenticed in the local architectural office of Herbst & Kuenzli. 

Newsletter, Annual Theme, Special Edition, Places of Worship

Article

July 14, 2025

An Architect’s Disdain, A Community’s Beacon: Wright’s Community Christian Church

On Halloween night in 1939, the Community Christian Church – at the time known as the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church – suffered a fire that destroyed the church’s second building, and forced them to relocate for a fourth time since the congregation’s inception in 1888.

Newsletter, Annual Theme, Special Edition, Places of Worship

Article

July 14, 2025

The Ascetic Artist

From an adapted barn in Locust Valley, Richard Lippold spun wire into gossamer threads to create other worldly compositions. He eschewed organized religion but was deeply connected to the natural world and communed with the metals that composed his sculptures.

Newsletter, Annual Theme, Special Edition, Places of Worship

Article

July 14, 2025

Heaven in Proportion: Lutah Maria Riggs’ Hidden Masterpiece

Tucked into the quiet hills of Montecito, California, the Vedanta Temple emerges like a secret sanctuary for both visitors and spiritual seekers. Designed by Lutah Maria Riggs in 1956, it is a rare example of sacred architecture that blends philosophical depth, environmental sensitivity, and architectural restraint.

Newsletter, Annual Theme, Special Edition, Places of Worship

Article

July 14, 2025

Church of the Transfiguration: A Masterpiece of Lithuanian Folk Art Modernism

Tucked away on a quiet side street in the low-rise Queens neighborhood of Maspeth sits a little known modernist masterpiece of Lithuanian architecture, the Church of the Transfiguration.

Endangered, Newsletter, Annual Theme, Special Edition, Places of Worship

Article

July 14, 2025

In a Giant Sapphire

Wallace Harrison, the architect best known for such projects as the United Nations Headquarters, Lincoln Center, and Albany’s Empire State Plaza, designed only one church, First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, CT, 1952–1958.

Newsletter, Annual Theme, Special Edition, Places of Worship

News

June 16, 2025

Meet the 2025 Theodore Prudon Preservation Education Fund Grant Recipient

Sonya Sehgal is an emerging conservation professional and graduate student, pursuing a Master of Science in Historic Preservation at the University of Texas. She is the first recipient of the Theodore Prudon Education Fund Grant, and we recently spoke with her about receiving the grant and how she plans to utilize the funding to further her educational pursuits.

Preservation

News

June 12, 2025

Summer 2025 Reads

Expand your horizons and escape into our annual summer reads list, featuring new and on-theme architecture and design titles. And a reminder that when you purchase any of the books below through our Bookshop.org storefront, Docomomo US receives a portion of the proceeds. 

Newsletter, Book List, Summer Reads

Press release

May 21, 2025

Former Whitney Museum of American Art and Modulightor Building Apartment Duplex Receive NYC Landmark Designation

Docomomo US and Docomomo US/New York Tri-State Chapter are thrilled to announce the New York City individual and interior landmark designation of the former Whitney Museum of American Art at 945 Madison Avenue, designed by Marcel Breuer and Associates.

Advocacy, Breuer, New York, Paul Rudolph

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