october newsletter

Saturday, October 16 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. HST
Docomomo Hawaii 2021 Annual Walking Tour is this Saturday! 
 
This year’s tour is on Alfred Yee | A Modern Pre-Cast Pioneer. Our FREE event will focus on Alfred Yee, one of the most influential and innovative structural engineers in Hawaii’s history.  Yee helped design some of Honolulu’s most complex structures, including Alfred Preis’s floating Arizona Memorial to Ossipoff’s Diamond Head Apartments, the first precast & prestressed concrete tower in the country. 
 
Sign-up today to experience a virtual walking tour featuring guest speakers: Suling Yee, Chang Nai Kim, Myles Shimokawa, Roy Noda, Tim Goshi, Jimmy Lam and Ian Robertson. Pending AIA approval, AIA Members are eligible to receive 1 LU for attending this lecture.
 
Thank you to our sponsors: Fung Associates, AHL, Akamai Structural LLC, Allison-Ide Structural Engineers, Down Stream Inc, GRMP, HonBlue, KAI Hawaii Inc, Martin Chock Carden, Nagamine Okawa Engineers, Tadpole Studio, and TileCo Inc.

Thursday, November 11th
Hawaii wins big in the Docomomo US Modernism in America Awards!
 
Docomomo US is pleased to announce fifteen recipients of the 2021 Modernism in America Awards. These projects highlight the best in preservation practice by today’s architects, designers, preservation professionals, and grassroots advocates. This year’s awards recognize model preservation efforts that elevate original design intent while adapting to current day needs, inventory and survey projects that synthesize large swaths of information into digestible content, and critical advocacy initiatives that put public input and education at the forefront.
 
The 2021 winners from Hawaii include:
 
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Pālehua Cabin and Guest Cottage (Kapolei, HI)
 
CITATION OF MERIT
Tropical Modernism at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (Honolulu, HI)
 
See the full list of winners here.

Thursday, October 28th from 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. HST
Liljestrand Foundation invites you to join them for the third segment of a four-part livestream program, Modern Hawai‘i and the Liljestrand House, which poses the Liljestrand House as a cultural construct of the place, time and human aspiration which created it nearly 70 years ago in relation to its meaning and mission today.
 
Architecture that Moves builds upon Dean Sakamoto’s interpretation of the Vladimir Ossipoff’s design tendencies which were the basis for the content of the retrospective exhibition, Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff  (Honolulu Museum of Art, 2007; Yale University Architecture Gallery, 2008; Deutsches Architekturmuseum, 2009).

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Check out this article by Timothy Schuler about Waikiki’s interesting and unique architecture.