"When Bethesda's Walt Whitman High School opened in 1962, it had one especially distinctive feature: a geodesic dome that served as the school's field house." Check out this article by John Kelly at the Washington Post remembering modern architecture in the DMV. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/26/whitman-high-dome-bethesda/ Additional Dome reading: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020/02/17/home-of-the-dome/

Modern on the National Mall Meet us at America's Mall to explore the challenges of caring for Modern Museums on the National Mall. The tour will visit I.M Pei’s National Gallery of Art - East Building, Gyo Obata’s National Air and Space Museum, and Gordon Bunshaft’s Hirshhorn Museum to explore recently completed and ongoing work to improve the exterior envelopes and visitor experiences of these Modern masterpieces. Tickets have been reversed for entry into the National Air an

THE LATROBE CHAPTER IS PLEASED TO COHOST THIS EVENT WITH HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND DOCOMOMO DC ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24! *Post update! Check out photographs from the tour on our facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/DocomomoDC/photos Professor of Architecture and Interim Department Chairperson Bradford C. Grant will lead us through the Howard University campus, highlighting its diverse array of historic architecture—from the Colonial Revival buildings facing its main Yard