Join us for cocktails at sunset at the Docomomo US Modernism in America award-winning Financial Center rotunda by W.A. Sarmiento, recently restored by Shepley Bulfinch. Light cocktails will be served and food trucks will serve apps a-la-carte.

Included with full conference registration. Individual tickets $20.

Phoenix College, a WPA era campus that experienced a huge infusion of modern expansion by the architecture firm Haver, Nunn & Nelson will host the first full day of sessions featuring lectures of a national and local scope on the topic of modernism and climate. Architect, founder and Honorary President of Docomomo International Hubert-Jan Henket will give the morning keynote address tentatively titled: WHERE NEW AND OLD MEET: A plea for sustainable modernity.

Included with full conference registration. Individual tickets $75. Lunch provided.

National Symposium attendees are invited for an evening lecture and tourof Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home Taliesin West. Architect and Docomomo US founding member, Gunny Harboe FAIA will provide guests with an overview of Taliesin West's recent preservation master plan and the evening will conclude with a very special sunset cocktail reception.

Unique to the 2017 Symposium is a full-day retreat to Arcosanti. This “urban laboratory” located in the desert north of Phoenix was the vision of Paolo Soleri, who was once a Frank Lloyd Wright fellow. Co-president Jeff Stein and others will lead guests thorough tours, lectures and discussions exploring the legacy and future of this experimental, utopian town and land preserve, what it is like to live and work at Arcosanti and what the vision is for the site in the future.

Join Marshall Shore the Hip Historian and Vic Linoff of the Mesa Preservation Foundation and Arizona Vintage Sign Coalition on a guided bus tour of Mesa's main drag. View and photograph the monumental and iconic signs. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Arizona Vintage Sign Coalition and restoration of the Watson's Flower Shop sign.