The Docomomo US 2024 National Symposium took place in Miami and Coral Gables, Florida, which together host one of the country's richest collections of midcentury and Postmodern architecture. The Symposium considered the topic Streams of Modernity: Postwar to Postmodern.

A selection of recorded Symposium sessions are now available to view on Vimeo.

Sessions can be purchased individually or as a package.

Individual sessions: $10/each

All Symposium sessions: $100

Symposium attendees can access the recordings for free as a perk of attendance, and Docomomo US members receive $25 off the full package. Attendees and members will receive a discount code via email. If you do not have the discount code, please contact us at info@docomomo-us.org. 

Recordings are available to stream for one (1) year from the date of purchase.

If you are affiliated with an academic institution and would like to provide access for students, or if you have any other questions relating to the recorded sessions, please contact us at info@docomomo-us.org.

This is the fourth year Symposium sessions have been recorded and archived in this way. All past Symposium session recordings can be accessed on our Vimeo page. Many thanks to our speakers for making their presentations available to the public and promoting knowledge in this capacity.

 

Here is a list of the available recorded presentations. Please note, there are a small number of sessions that were not recorded.

For details about each session please visit the Thursday and Friday schedule pages. 

THURSDAY SESSIONS:

Session 1: Postwar Infrastructure and Segregation: Architecture, Housing, and Education

• “Rise and Fall of a Gasoline Driven Building (El Helicoide, Caracas Venezuela). From the Machine toward an Architecture,” presented by Henry Rueda
  
  

Session 2: The Colors of Modernism

• “Mixed Metals in Architecture,” Edward FitzGerald

• “An Exploration into Mid-Century Glass Block Design: The Colored, Patterned, and Textured Era,” Nicole Frank, MSHP

• “Five Shades of Pink: Exploring Images of Arquitectonica’s Spear House,” Karol R. Williams, MArch
  
  

Session 3: Tropical Brutalism Then and Now

• “Test of Time: 1960s Tropical Brutalist Architecture Today,” Veronica A. Castro, AIA
  
  

Session 4: Modernist Architectural Design and Race in the American City

• “Dive-In at the Monson Motor Lodge: St. Augustine, 1964,” Arièle Dionne-Krosnick

• “Caught In The Middle: Ralph and William Zimmerman’s Sarasota School Designs Through The Era of Desegregation,” Susan Singh

• “Urban Renewal and Post-Modern Legacy of Oklahoma City,” Selena Bagnara Milan

   

Session 5: Modern Architecture and Integral Artworks: Relocation, Conservation, and Contextualization

• “Cherished and Repurposed: Relocating Monumental Modern Mosaics,” Caroline Dickensheets 
• “Color and Light: The Allied Arts in Milwaukee’s Postwar Churches,” Justin Carlos Miller

Session 6: Tropical Waves: South Florida Contorts Modernism

• “The Architecture of Whimsy: Mid-20th-Century-Modern Architecture in South Florida,” Arthur Marcus
• “A Coney Island State of Mind: Morris Lapidus,” Deborah Desilets, RA
• “Morris Lapidus Abandons Bourgeois Baroque for Tropical Brutalism,” David D. McKinney
  
  

Session 7: Miami Marine Stadium: Inside and Out

• “Miami Marine Stadium – A Preservation Playbook – 16 Years and Counting,” Don Worth

Session 8: Sarasota All the Way

• “Moderns That Matter: Sarasota 100,” Marty Hylton III and Kristine Ziedina 
• “The Rise of Leedy – Florida’s Favorite Brutalist,” Max Strang, FAIA 

Session 9: In Pursuit of Modernity: Three University Campuses in the Tropics

• "Henry Klumb’s Modernism and Poetic Legacy in Puerto Rico," Paolo Sanza and Prof. Awilda Rodríguez Carrión
• "Building a Postwar American Campus in the Tropics: The work of Marion Manley and Robert Law Weed at the University of Miami," Carie Penabad
• "Divergent Revolutionary Modernisms: Two Campuses in Havana," Belmont Freeman, FAIA

FRIDAY SESSIONS:

Session 10: When You Got It – Flaunt It: New Designs for a New Era

• "Eliot Noyes’ Bubble House in Hobe Sound, Florida (1953-1954). An Alternative Solution for Modern Living," Alessandro Cavallo
• "Preserving Mission 66 Modernism in an Urban Environment Threatened by Climate Change," Jennie Gwin, AIA
• "The Cutting Edge Design and Architecture of Braniff Airways," David Preziosi, FAICP

Session 11: Preservation Priorities: Evolving Approaches to Assessing Postwar Resources (none recorded)

 

Session 12: (Sub)Tropical Brutalism

• "Brazilian Brutalism: Art, Technique, Aesthetic, and Malleable Plasticity," Isabella Leite Trindade

Session 13: Hiding in Plain Sight: Queer Safe Havens from the Domestic Sphere to the Public Arena

• "Drag Culture: Intangible Heritage Through Ephemeral Places," Jesus (Chuy) Barba-Bonilla
  
  

Session 14: The Theoretical and Technical Challenges of Adapting Modernism

• Miami’s Taj Majal: The Pan American Regional Headquarters Building, Richard J. Heisenbottle, FAIA
• Preserving Modernism: Lever House and the Sustainability of a Landmark, Amy Garlock and Karen Stone 

Session 15: Tropical Modernism: The Formation of a Unique Regionalist Movement

• "How South Florida’s Geology Gave Rise to its Regionalist Sense of Modernism," William H. Arthur IV, AIA, NCARB
• "The Tropical Ranch: Examining the Ranch Style in Palm Beach," Marie Penny
• "The Gulf of Mexico: The Other Mediterranean? Elements of Tradition and Modernity (in the Work of Eugenio Batista and Luis Barragan)," Silvia Aloiso