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Architectural Photography 101: Capture Modernism with Your Phone or Camera [Online Class]
Mar 31
Architectural Photography 101: Capture Modernism with Your Phone or Camera [Online Class]

Join photographer Josh Weinberg, San Francisco-based urban photographer, photo educator, and tour guide, for a dynamic 60-minute Zoom workshop on how to see—and capture—architecture more powerfully through your lens.

Free Tour: Architecture of the Oakland Museum of California
Apr 5
Free Tour: Architecture of the Oakland Museum of California

Sunday, April 5, 1-3:30 PM | The 1969 Oakland Museum of California, famous for its terraced roof gardens, is one of the Town's modernist, civic gems. Join Docomomo NoCa board members on April's "OMCA Architecture Walk & Talk" tour, 1-2 PM, free, no registration required, to learn more about the ground-breaking design led by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates and the Office of Dan Kiley. Directly after, we'll meet in the OMCA Garden to talk all things Docomomo and peruse a smattering of books, reports, and documents on the museum & mid-century visions and development of the surrounding Lake Merritt estuary. Visit the OMCA website for tour details.

Roger Lee Home Tour: Modernism for the Masses [Walking Tour - Rerun] SOLD OUT Visit Eventbrite to join wait list
Apr 11
Roger Lee Home Tour: Modernism for the Masses [Walking Tour - Rerun] SOLD OUT Visit Eventbrite to join wait list

Join Docomomo US/NOCA on a walking tour to explore the legacy of Roger Y. Lee, a prolific and acclaimed – yet currently underrecognized – architect whose name and work should be synonymous with the development of Second Bay Region Tradition design and Mid-Century Modernism in California.

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SFMOMA: Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE
Mar 29
SFMOMA: Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

At SFMOMA through Summer 2026
Writing functions not only as language, but also as a visual and even tactile form. Famed artist and educator Josef Albers imparted this idea to his students at Black Mountain College, a former liberal arts school in North Carolina, where artist Ray Johnson studied from 1945 to 1948. In an exercise called “typofacture,” Albers asked students in his design course to create drawings mimicking printed or handwritten text. After observing textures on surfaces — like speckles on a wall or patterns in a raked garden path — they applied the concept to printed text, which bears the imprint of its production, whether by hand or machine. This activity left a lasting impression on Johnson, a future collage and correspondence artist, whose works (like Paul Klee’s) frequently combine text and representations.

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Free Tour: Architecture of the Oakland Museum of California
Apr
5
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Free Tour: Architecture of the Oakland Museum of California

Sunday, April 5, 1-3:30 PM | The 1969 Oakland Museum of California, famous for its terraced roof gardens, is one of the Town's modernist, civic gems. Join Docomomo NoCa board members on April's "OMCA Architecture Walk & Talk" tour, 1-2 PM, free, no registration required, to learn more about the ground-breaking design led by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates and the Office of Dan Kiley. Directly after, we'll meet in the OMCA Garden to talk all things Docomomo and peruse a smattering of books, reports, and documents on the museum & mid-century visions and development of the surrounding Lake Merritt estuary. Visit the OMCA website for tour details.

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Roger Lee Home Tour: Modernism for the Masses [Walking Tour - Rerun] SOLD OUT Visit Eventbrite to join wait list
Apr
11
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Roger Lee Home Tour: Modernism for the Masses [Walking Tour - Rerun] SOLD OUT Visit Eventbrite to join wait list

Join Docomomo US/NOCA on a walking tour to explore the legacy of Roger Y. Lee, a prolific and acclaimed – yet currently underrecognized – architect whose name and work should be synonymous with the development of Second Bay Region Tradition design and Mid-Century Modernism in California.

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Roger Lee: Modernism for the Masses Multi-Unit Housing Walking Tour
Nov
8
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Roger Lee: Modernism for the Masses Multi-Unit Housing Walking Tour

Discover the overlooked brilliance of Bay Area modernist architect Roger Lee on a guided walking tour through Berkeley’s Shattuck Avenue corridor. On Saturday, November 8, join Docomomo US/NOCA for a 1.5-mile exploration of Lee’s mid-century multi-unit housing, where architecture, community, and social history intersect.

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Sacred Spaces of Berkeley Docomomo Tour Day 2025
Oct
11
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Sacred Spaces of Berkeley Docomomo Tour Day 2025

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Docomomo Tour Day for 2025 highlights Sacred Spaces in Berkeley, just south of campus. Join us on Saturday, October 11th for a walking tour lead by Chad DeWitt, vice president of the Northern California chapter. On our tour, we’ll trace the evolution of Bay Area church design seeing examples of First, Second and Third Bay modernism, ending with an example of Brutalism. 

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