Docomomo US/NOCA Symposium Grants Awarded to Kadia Bah & Andrea Schurmann
Docomomo US/Northern California is excited to announce two symposium grants have been awarded to Kadia Bah and Andrea Schurmann. Kadia and Andrea will be attending this year’s Docomomo US Symposium, which will be held virtually from Chicago on May 25–28, 2021. Read more about Kadia and Andrea’s interest and engagement with Modernism below, and be sure to say a virtual hello to them during the symposium!
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Kadia Bah
Kadia Bah moved to the United States from Guinea in 2014 after high school. After two years of community college she started her bachelor in Architecture at the Academy of Art University in 2016. Since the beginning of her academic career she has always been drawn to modern design especially brutalism. In 2020 she joined the team of Hood Midcentury Modern as a social media intern; an online community that records and documents midcentury modern buildings specifically in the context of neighborhoods populated by black people and people of color. She is currently in her 5th year working on her thesis project and is the president elect of the AAU’s first NOMAS chapter.
Kadia on why she is excited to attend the National Symposium:
Attending the Docomomo 2021 Symposium would enrich my knowledge in preservation and I would be able to share with my peers at NOMAS. It would also give me the amazing opportunity to meet a community of people with whom I share the passion of modern architecture.
Andrea Schurmann
Andrea Schurmann is undertaking a PhD that explores the connection between architecture of the modern era, tourism, and community well-being with the assistance of an Australian Government Postgraduate Award Scholarship. Having first arrived in Miami Beach with the task of undertaking research for her dissertation, she fell in love with the MiMo and Art Deco architecture and decided to stay. Andrea was recently employed with Miami Design Preservation League and has also been assisting a local preservationist with writing her preservation memoir.
Prior to moving to the US, Andrea taught subjects & conducted research with the Division of Tropical Environments & Societies at James Cook University, Australia, in areas related to planning, tourism, and sustainability. She was involved in an exhibition on the “Queenslander” that documented vernacular buildings in North Queensland. She earned her Master’s in Sustainable architecture from Deakin University, Australia. She has worked with adobe construction techniques and sustainable architecture with various architectural firms in Australia & Nepal where her love of preservation first began. She is passionate about the connection between historic preservation, sustainability, and tourism.
Andrea on why she is excited to attend the National Symposium:
I am interested in attending the symposium to share in 25 years of experience of Docomomo US with preserving modern architecture.