D.C.’s Third Church of Christ Protected As Landmark
The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board voted unanimously to award landmark status to the Third Church of Christ, Scientist and barred congregants from redeveloping the 1971 building by Araldo...
View ArticleCan an ‘Eyesore’ Be Significant?
Marcel Breuer’s HUD Building (GSA photo) Some local modern buildings from the mid-century period were trashed in the Washington Post today. The piece, “An Eyeful of Washington Eyesores,” was based on...
View ArticleRoger Lewis: ‘The Triumph and Decline of a Truly Brutal Style’
Post columnist Roger K. Lewis, a practicing architect and a professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Maryland, gives some of the history of brutalist architecture and tells...
View ArticleThird Church Makes DCPL’s Most Endangered List
The D.C. Preservation League unveiled its 2009 Most Endangered Places list yesterday. The one modern building on the list was no surprise: the Third Church of Christ, Scientist at 900 16th St. NW. The...
View ArticleSummer Reading: Larry Van Dyne’s ‘Tear It Down! Save It!’
If you are looking for something to read on the beach this summer, take a look at this fascinating 10,000-word Washingtonian article by Larry Van Dyne on the history of Washington preservation efforts,...
View ArticleModern Snapshot: Charles Goodman’s Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington
Charles Goodman designed three mid-century modern churches in the area — one each in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington was the last of the three area churches,...
View ArticleEmpire State Plaza: Wallace Harrison’s Mid-Century Modern Masterpiece
Our country’s own mini version of the the grand Brasilia can be found in a city–Albany–with a very different climate than the capital of Brazil, which was designed by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer....
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