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PROGRAM GUIDE DOCOMOMO US NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM HAWAII September 25-28, 2019 1 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Wednesday, September 25 Friday, September 27 Kick Off with Ossipoff Welcome to Paradise Outrigger Canoe Club Hawaii State Capitol 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM Registration and Check-in 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Van shuttle to/from Capitol 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Outrigger Canoe Club self-guided tours 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM Registration and Check-in 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Welcome Reception 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Continental Breakfast 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Paradise Paradigms Presentation 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee Break Thursday, September 26 10:50 AM - 12:15 PM Designing Paradise Presentation East Meets West 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch (meal provided) Jefferson Hall (East-West Center Imin Conference Center) 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tours 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Van shuttle to/from East-West 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Closing Reception 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM Registration and Check-in 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Continental Breakfast 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Welcome Saturday, September 28 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM Hawaii Overview Presentation Holo Holo 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee break 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Tours 10:50 AM - 12:15 PM Asian Influences Presentation 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch (meal not provided) 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch (meal provided) 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tours 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM UH Manoa Self-Guided Walking Tour 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM Tours 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM Cocktail Club Self Guided Tours Docomomo US/Hawaii Chapter is pleased to share with Symposium attendees two self-guided walking tours of mid-century architecture in the Waikiki Area, see page 25. Events Exhibits Cocktail Club, see page 14 Tropical Modernism at UH Manoa, see page 14 Closing Reception, see page 18 Francis Haar: Disappearing Honolulu, see page 14 Aloha Festivals, see page 20 Wimberly LTD - Wimberlost Works, see page 20 ARTafterDARK, see page 20 Vintage Lines Aloha Shirt Exhibit, see page 20 AIA CES and HSW credits will be made available for all sessions and tours. Travel Guide to Modern Honolulu Front cover: Visit some of our favorite places around town — for a list of our most recommended K¯ahala Condominiums (Honolulu, Hawaii) modern-inspired places to stay, shop, eat, and visit: Architect: Killingsworth, Brady and Associates Photographer: Julius Shulman Download our favorites list: https://mailchi.mp/9132b470ee2d/favoriteslist © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10) 2 3 ABOUT NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS About the National Symposium Mauna Kea Mauna Loa Haleakala The Docomomo US National Symposium is the foremost event in the United States for individuals, organizations and businesses interested or engaged in the preservation of modern architecture. The National Symposium seeks to highlight the national and regional contributions of this legacy by taking place in a different region of the country each year. Join us next year in Chicago: June 3-6, 2020. Docomomo US Docomomo US is dedicated to the preservation of modern architecture, landscape and design. Through advocacy, education and documentation, we provide leadership and knowledge by demonstrating the importance of modern design principles including the social context, technical merits, aesthetics and settings of these important pieces of American history. Founded in the United Kawaikini Kamakou States in 1995, Docomomo US is a non-profit organization led by a national Board of Directors and staff that represents a union of regional chapters that share its members’ knowledge of and enthusiasm for modern architecture and design. Docomomo US/Hawaii The Docomomo US/Hawaii Chapter advances the understanding, preservation and documentation of the modern movement in the State of Hawaii in the areas of urban planning, architecture, architectural interiors, landscapes and public art. These areas, as specified by this Chapter, are to be considered historical resources and references which may inform future preservation and development in the State. Hawaii’s unique location, physical conditions, social history and cultural characteristics provides a framework for this Chapter’s efforts towards the conservation, adaptive reuse and sustainability of these areas of historical assets. Increasing public and professional awareness of Hawaii’s modern heritage through advocacy, organized events, development of resource material, and collaboration among other organizations are the key deliverables of this mission. Docomomo US Chapters Friend Organizations Chicago New Orleans/Louisiana Houston Mod DC New York/Tri-State Indiana Modern Florida Northern California Landmark Columbus Georgia North Texas Modern STL Leahi Community Partners Hawaii Oregon North Carolina Modernist Houses Michigan Philadelphia Palm Springs Modernism Week Lisa Van Den Heuvel Mid Tex Mod Southern California Minnesota Western Washington New England Board of Directors Staff Theodore Prudon, President Anna Mod Liz Waytkus, Executive Director Robert Meckfessel, Vice-President Robert Nauman Michele Racioppi, Program & Flora Chou, Treasurer Robert Pullum Communication Manager Todd Grover, Secretary Michelangelo Sabatino Meredith Arms Bzdak Monica Schaffer Media Partners T. Gunny Harboe Barry Solar Katie Horak Bradford J. White Eric Keune Barbara Yanni 4 5 WELCOME WELCOME Welcome to the Docomomo US National Symposium titled Mixed Aloha, and welcome to the 2019 Docomomo US National Symposium. Modern; Modern Architecture in a Multicultural Context. We, here in Hawaii are thrilled to host and are excited about the week ahead. Hawaii has always had Hawaii is the right place to explore that very context. Many have seen modernism as a homogenous an interesting relationship with the built environment. From the beginning, our natural features have and mostly international style phenomenon. This misperception finds its origins in the 1932 Museum been what brought people to the islands. Steep mountainsides, lush tropical foliage, and sandy, serene of Modern Art exhibition: Modern Architecture: An International Exhibition and the publication of the book beaches - a picturesque image of paradise. Over thousands of years people have come here, either The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 in that same year. While there has been much discussion to make a life for themselves, or visit and escape. Cultures from all over the world have migrated and criticism since, maybe, this erroneous impression has unwittingly been perpetuated by the fact that here, calling this place home. With them they brought their food, customs, traditions, architecture, Docomomo US is part of an international network of eponymous organizations. Nothing is further from and sensibilities. Housing, accommodations, commerce, and civics increased the built world and the truth and discussions about the question of whether modernism is international or regional are not diminished the natural. In different periods in Hawaii, architecture and construction boomed - but new, date back as far as the time of the original 1932 exhibit and continue today. maybe none so prolific as the mid-century period. It was the rise of the jet-age, beginning of statehood, and the post-war influx and growth that came to define the Honolulu skyline, and shaped our islands Today modernism and modern architecture are generally accepted to be a mixture of different influences forever. With this sudden boom in architecture came Modernism, like many cities around the world reflecting geography, history, culture, climate, and tradition. Docomomo US has highlighted some of these during this post-war period. But here, Modernism perhaps found its best setting. It’s principles were unique and regional differences in its earlier national symposia and has sought to celebrate that very diversity derived from success found elsewhere, refined and duplicated around the world. Modernism was further when holding its national symposia in different parts of the US. The 2019 national symposium in supposed to be the ideal, the international form of architecture. But its minimal, floating structures, Hawaii is more than just an addition to that list; it is a case in point of a particular amalgamation as this year’s sense of play, indoor-outdoor spaces, and subversiveness to the natural world seemed to be the right symposium title: Mixed Modern; Modern Architecture in a Multicultural Context reflects. move for Hawaii architecture. But what made our strain of Modernism even more unique, was the life and culture that seemed to emerge from the architecture, representing the multicultural, multiethinic The theme of mixing modernism highlights the components of what takes place in Hawaii in the 20th makeup of the Island demographic. Here, Modernism found itself in a multicultural context, it century. Local design and building tradition that absorbs and reflects influences from different countries became Mixed Modernism. And it is this - the utopian ideals of Modernism, the refined principles, the and cultures evolve into a local identity during the first half of the century. In the immediate postwar minimalist aesthetic - joined with the background and context of many people of many cultures - that period, that unique architectural expression of identity is further expanded to celebrate the arrival of we are excited to share with our Docomomo ohana. statehood and the development of the islands as significant travel destinations. Modern architecture served the purpose of expressing visually both the new era and identity while incorporating local design We’ve helped curate some of our best stories and spaces to share with you all this coming week. We and building traditions. hope you see Modernism, and our islands, in a different way after it is all done. This is a place of inclusion, a place of natural beauty, but also a place of empathy - to people, place, and history. This process of mixing and absorbing multicultural context and diversity is reminiscent of the ascent of modernism and the role of modern architecture in other parts of the world.