National Symposium Opening Keynote & Reception

Photography by Ruben Correa on May 29th, 2024 in Arts, Lifestyle

Miami, FL – May 29, 2024 – 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. Join us in Miami and Coral Gables, Florida, from May 29 to June 1, 2024, and experience one of the country’s richest collections of mid-century and postmodern architecture. Entitled Streams of Modernity: Postwar to Postmodern, the 2024 National Symposium is a collaboration of Docomomo US and the Docomomo US/Florida chapter.

Cuban-born American art conservator and founder of RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture, LLC, Rosa Lowinger kicks off the Symposium the evening of Wednesday, May 29, “Modern Materials, Tropical Identities: Preservation as a Tool for Personal and Communal Repair.” Lowinger discusses the links between historic preservation and healing of intergenerational trauma using examples from her family’s story of double exile from Eastern Europe to Cuba and then the United States. Based on her 2023 memoir Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair, this presentation highlights the specific challenges of conserving twentieth-century materials in tropical and marine climates and the metaphors for and dealing with coastal conservation in the period of climate change.

The Opening Keynote takes place in the midcentury Cosford Cinema on the University of Miami campus; a reception at the Lowe Art Museum follows.