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Midwest Nevertheless, beyond the urban design of the Modern Movement. Modern the of design urban people are things: we are pro- Join the growing worldwide effort to identify, record and and preserve architecture and and architecture preserve and and record identify, to effort worldwide growing the Join fessionally interested in the CHAPTERS 1. Treasure Bay Casino Resort in Ruins, MEMBERSHIP FORM MEMBERSHIP Biloxi, MS. fate of architecture, art, documents collections, historic records, DOCOMOMO DOCOMOMO (photo: Christopher Kyle Craig) and cultural institutions. During this extraordinary hurricane sea- son, we wonder about the impact of Katrina and Rita on the Gulf Coast region’s physical resources, and, especially for readers of this newsletter, on modern buildings. With the loss of life and with the displacement of citizens from their homes brought about by the storms, one hesitates to talk about lost or damaged buildings or International working party for documentation and conservation destroyed cultural artifacts. Nonetheless, as an architectural historian of building sites and neighborhoods of the whose career has focused on the study of buildings, art, and the modern movement cont’d on p. 6 P.O. Box 230977 New York, NY 10023 NATIONAL NEWS | fall 2005 ARTICLES DOCOMOMO NEWS 11 CONFERENCES & EVENTS 1 Thoughts on the Cultural Impact 2 Welcome of Katrina 11 EXHIBITS by Robert M. Craig 4 Chapter News • North Texas 2 DOCOMOMO‘s New Online • Northern California Register • Georgia by Jon Buono and Gary Koll • Chicago/Midwest NATIONAL NEWS • New York/Tri-State 3 The International Specialist fall 2005 Committee for Registers by David Fixler ANNOUNCEMENTS 4 Saving the Shell 8 Kahn Building Renovation by Andy Kirk 8 Jamaica Savings Bank 5 Salt Lake City's Former Library May Lose its Modern Form 10 Book Announcement by Kirk Huffaker 10 IXth International DOCOMOMO Conference Frank Lloyd Wright designed the EXHIBITION REVIEW Louis Sullivan Cottage in DOCOMOMO-US Ocean Springs, MS in 1890. 9 Team 10: A Utopia of the Present It was recently destroyed by (1963-1981) Email: [email protected] Hurrican Katrina. Mail: PO Box 230977 (photo: Robert M. Craig) New York, NY 10023 www.docomomo-us.org Welcome DOCOMOMO’s New Online Register This past October the board of DOCOMOMO’s acronymic name recognizes search criteria such as location, architect, or DOCOMOMO-US met in Dallas, “documentation” as a necessary prerequisite to building typology. Other features, such as the Texas for its annual meeting successfully advocate for the conservation of the ability to search the register by keyword, can be and had the pleasure of being historic built environment. Towards the fulfillment expanded in the future. of this goal, the US Register Committee is in the The online register is inherently a “work in hosted by our North Texas process of creating an online register of American progress,” and, as such, will be managed as an chapter. As a result, a series modern movement resources to facilitate evolving record. Currently, available records of very productive meetings access to documentation of such assets for the primarily reflect the active research of the existing were interspersed, with—what purposes of research, advocacy, and education. DOCOMOMO-US chapters. The register’s goal, else?—visits to modern land- The Committee is composed of representatives however, is to serve as a representative sampling marks. We are very grateful to from all US Chapters and reflects regional of the collective body of modern movement our hosts and the various insti- expertise in the identification and evaluation of resources across the country. Therefore, as new the modern movement resources in this country. Chapters and partnerships are formed, the online tutions and their staff members The system—devoted exclusively to this period of register will necessarily grow to fill gaps in the for providing hospitality, in architecture, landscape, and urban design—is the geographic distribution of documented particular RTKL, who provided only web-based database of its kind. Designed resources. us with meeting spaces in their in conjunction with a database development As we advance the Working Party’s mission to offices throughout the week- consultant, the register was introduced at the foster documentation of American modern move- end. 2004 DOCOMOMO International Conference ment resources, we hope you will visit the US This meeting was an impor- in New York and will be accessed through the website in early 2006 for the public launch of DOCOMOMO-US website. the system. For further information concern- tant one. DOCOMOMO-US, first The register is a browser-based database ing the work of the US Register Committee, conceived in 1995 and formally that will serve as a multi-faceted research tool please contact Jon Buono at organized in 1997, is about to by allowing users to query modern movement [email protected]. enter its second decade. Time buildings and landscapes according to location, has brought changes to the typology, and architect/designer. This capability —Jon Buono and Gary Koll organization and its board. will allow users unique side-by-side comparisons Members that helped the of resource data from minimum documentation fiches, documents that provide all essential founding of the organization information about a particular modern resource. A have moved on but remain browser can search the minimum documentation active within their local chapter. fiches after logging into the register via the Gunny Harboe, our board mem- DOCOMOMO-US website and inserting various ber from the Midwest chapter, resigned as Vice-President. He played a leading role in estab- lishing the organization and we thank him for his efforts and participation over the last ten years. Jorge Otero-Pailos, who has been our Secretary for the last two years, was elected Lovell House, Newport Beach, CA, Vice-President and Hélène 1926. Lipstadt will now serve as Secretary. We are also pleased to announce the following new board members: Nnamdi Elleh from Cincinnati, Barry Solar from New England, and Kazys Varnelis from Los Angeles. The board discussed and Gropius House, Lincoln, MA, 1938. decided on several major issues and initiatives, one of which is described in this newsletter: the new online register. Jon Buono from DOCOMOMO-GA has agreed to be the interim chair of the US Register Committee and he is being assisted by Farnsworth House, Plano, IL, 1951. representatives from the vari- ous chapters in this initiative. (graphic: Maggie Oldfather) DOCOMOMO-US/FALL 2005 2 Welcome DOCOMOMO’s New Online Register Welcome The International lar building typology. These are typically held in the alternate years between the International Specialist Committee Conferences and the theme of the seminar forms This past October the board of OCOMOMO’s acronymic name recognizes search criteria such as location, architect, or In the beginning of next year D the basis for the homework in those years. The “documentation” as a necessary prerequisite to building typology. Other features, such as the DOCOMOMO-US met in Dallas, the US online register will be for Registers first of these was “Sport and the Body,” a look successfully advocate for the conservation of the ability to search the register by keyword, can be Texas for its annual meeting up and running. The new com- at buildings for physical culture that was held in historic built environment. Towards the fulfillment expanded in the future. and had the pleasure of being mittee is also working closely he central mission of DOCOMOMO’s Athens in conjunction with the events leading up of this goal, the US Register Committee is in the The online register is inherently a “work in T hosted by our North Texas with the ISC on Registers and International Specialist Committee for Registers to the 2004 Olympic Games.