Apply for our 2024 travel grant!
We are pleased to offer one grant for a student or emerging professional to participate in the in-person Docomomo US National Symposium 2024 event Streams of Modernity: Postwar to Postmodern from May 29 to June 1, 2024 in Miami and Coral Gables, Florida. The deadline for applications is Sunday, April 7, 2024.
The Babylon Apartments is a six-story multi-use “elongated ziggurat with a red front and ship-like balconies” that sits on a long narrow site across from the bay on Brickell Boulevard in Miami. The building stands out among the rest of the buildings in an area that has been overdeveloped with surrounding high-rise buildings. It was the first major project for Arquitectonica, which launched their career, and it served as a model for other projects by the firm in the Brickell area. In 1978 the Babylon won a Progressive Architecture Citation Award, the first international award for the firm.
About the Grant
The 2024 Docomomo US/NOCA Symposium Grant provides a single grant (up to $2,500) for related expenses, including (but not limited to):
Registration to National Symposium sessions, receptions, forum, and tours
Travel expenses to and from National Symposium
Lodging expenses during the National Symposium
Meals during the National Symposium (excluding alcohol)
Public transit during the National Symposium (to/from events, tours, related to the symposium)
One year individual membership to Docomomo US/NOCA
* The grant recipient will be responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodations.
** Docomomo US/NOCA will provide 50% of the grant ($1250) upfront when the recipient is selected. The remainder of the award will be granted upon receipt of the recipient’s travel expenses and completion of reporting requirements.
Eligibility
The scholarship is open to current undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students enrolled in established institutions of higher learning, as well as emerging professionals who have graduated within the past three years.
Applicants must be actively engaged in issues concerning the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement. “Documentation” may be in the form of research or scholarship, such as thesis or class projects, related to architecture, design, or planning topics associated with the 20th Century Modern Movement. Strong preference will be given to applicants with current or previous engagement on topics related to Northern California. Applicants do not need to be current members of Docomomo.
Applicants are asked to demonstrate their committed interest in the subject and how the scholarship will meaningfully advance their goals or work.
A Word from our 2023 Symposium Grant Recipient
Read about our 2023 Grant Recipient Ted Barrow’s experience attending the 2023 National Symposium in New Haven here. His approach to New Haven and the Symposium explored the city’s significant Modernist and Urban Renewal history through the lens of skateboarding history and culture.
“My appreciation of New Haven as a “crucible” for Modernism was thus two-fold: enriched by the many insightful talks I attended and discussions to which I was privy through the Symposium, I also saw the many skatespots in New Haven in a new light. Of course, I gained new insights and appreciation for Gordon Bunshaft & SOM’s Beinecke Library and Paul Rudolph’s Temple Street Garage and EOC Plaza both as exemplars of a particular design philosophy and commanding vision in a period of audacious re-thinking and restructuring of American cities. But I also intuitively assessed them as potential skatespots.” - Ted Barrow, Ph. D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)