Special Events
From happy hours to museum exhibitions, check out these happenings while you’re in town. We’ll continue to update this page leading up to the conference.
From happy hours to museum exhibitions, check out these happenings while you’re in town. We’ll continue to update this page leading up to the conference.
Infinite Space, a documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
Celebrate the conclusion of the IDC’s academic sessions at the closing reception hosted by the Getty. Set on a hilltop in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Getty Center offers panoramic views of Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.
Frida Escobedo, award-winning Mexican architect and founder of her eponymous studio, will deliver the closing speaker at the 19th International Docomomo Conference. Her keynote, Underlying Futures will unearth a plural prospect of the future, engaging with the themes of climate, community and creativity as they relate to modern architecture.
Ahead of the Closing Plenary and Reception, conference attendees are invited to enjoy open hours at The Getty.
Hubert-Jan Henket, Dutch architect, scholar, and co-founder of Docomomo International will invite reflection on whether the classic definitions of the Modern Movement still hold true in our evolving world of climate urgency, social change, and architectural pluralism.
TICKETED EVENT | Enjoy a fab Happy Hour sponsored by USModernist at John Portman’s Late Modern vision, the Bonaventure Hotel.
Enjoy drinks and light bites in true Hollywood environs, at this working film studio – and successful adaptive reuse project – which was originally the headquarters of the Union Oil Company of California.
Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize-winning architect and founder of Morphosis, will join acclaimed writer and broadcaster Frances Anderton for the Opening Keynote Conversation.
Meet, greet, and toast other Getty Grant recipients ahead of the Opening Keynote and Reception. Invite only.
Participants will conduct a site to the Los Angeles County Hall of Records
The Wende Museum reconstructs the modernist Cuban home built by the artist’s father between 1957–1963, amid the Cuban Revolution and Cold War embargo. The installation evokes memory, home, and exile, exploring how lived experience, dreams, and reality intersect. Through this evocative recreation, it questions authenticity, reflects on the emotional imprint of history, and examines how individuals and societies absorb the collapse of utopian hopes.
Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures explores the world's oldest and most versatile method of making multiple images. More than 150 works from Asia, Europe, and the Americas present the medium as both a means of creative expression and a vehicle for mass production that enabled images and ideas to circulate widely. The exhibition also includes a section developed with Los Angeles–based Block Shop, highlighting how contemporary makers continue to reinterpret this enduring art form.
See how an incredible range of African American and Afro-Atlantic diaspora artists –from studio and street photographers to graphic designers and community organizers – used photography as a tool for social change amid the turbulent decades of the mid-20th century.
