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Join the Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables from May 29 to June 1, and experience one of the country’s richest collections of mid-century and postmodern architecture. Titled “Streams of Modernity: Postwar to Postmodern,” the 2024 National Symposium is a collaboration of Docomomo US and the Docomomo US/Florida chapter.
The region became an escape for post-World War II middle America, shaped largely by the desire for leisure and entertainment. Over the past decades, the area has become a laboratory to explore new urban patterns, building types, evolving aesthetics, and emerging environmental consciousness.
The symposium seeks to promote a broader understanding of the accomplishments of postwar to Postmodern architecture and culture in regionally specific contexts such as South Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Themes to be explored include Tropical Brutalism, Postwar campus planning in the (sub)tropics, LGBTQ+Modernism, Postwar tourism, urban renewal and Interstate infrastructure, Modern architecture and popular culture in south Florida, polychrome Modern and the integration of the arts, and more.
The 2024 National Symposium is a joint partnership of Docomomo US and its Florida chapter, along with the University of Miami School of Architecture, Florida International University, Friends of the Miami Marine Stadium, Dade Heritage Trust, and the Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables.
The Docomomo US National Symposium is the primary event in the United States for professionals to discuss and share efforts to preserve modern architecture and meet leading practitioners and industry professionals.
The Symposium developed as a result of the Docomomo US Board of Directors’ annual “Face to Face” meeting. The first expanded event took place in Los Angeles in 2010 with an open forum for local individuals actively engaged in the discussion of modern architecture. Docomomo US hosted its first National Symposium in Sarasota in April 2013.
Held annually, this multi-day conference seeks to engage local participants in cities across the United States, offering participants the ability to interact with and explore a wide variety of significant modern architecture and sites.
The symposium will offer a unique tour: “From Coral to Concrete. The Moderns of Coral Gables: 1960-1980.”
Covering several blocks, this bus/walking tour will feature several glass and concrete structures including Brutalist and Neo-Brutalist commercial buildings designed by prominent local, national, and international architects during a 20-year span from 1960s through the 1980s.
The two-hour tour will showcase about 12 notable buildings by such architects as O.K. Houstoun, Walter Klements, Morris Lapidus, Roney Mateu, Alberto J. Socol, and others.
Dr. Karelia Martinez Carbonell is a local preservation advocate.
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