While DOCOMOMO (documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement) is not specifically SketchUp, it is about modern architecture, and there are a few fans of that here. It turns out their annual conference this year is coming to my home city of New Haven, CT, and hot off my speaking engagement at 3D Basecamp last September (which was a blast, BTW), I get to speak at this event. I’ll be talking about my parents.
Executive summary: My father studied with Walter Gropius and taught at Yale along with Louis Kahn, while my mother was among the first women at Harvard Graduate School of Design where she studied with and worked for Marcel Breuer. She taught me how to draft when I was 12.
The event will be held at the newly renovated Hotel Marcel which was already brought up in this thread, and I posted pictures of in this post.
If by any chance anyone is coming to this event, come see my presentation and say hello.
What a wonderful pair of photos, both of them beavering away on their iplanks.
Is your Dad’s one propped up on the arm of a chair complete with tea towels?
Bit far for me.
I think it’s a table with a table cloth over it. I have photo stats, but not originals of what’s on his board: a car dealer competition for Buick/GM in 1947±. I think he’s holding a ruling pen which were particularly nasty instruments for inking drawings before technical pens came along.
Congratulations on such a wonderful opportunity Robert. I’m sure you’ll be a smashing success. Your comment about your father holding a ruling pen brought a smile. I not so fondly recall the trials and tribulations of learning to use that blasted thing many decades ago.
Very nice. I wish I could have seen your presentation at Basecamp and I wish I could be there to hear you speak about your parents. Best wishes. Will there be a recording of your presentation we can see?
What a wonderful way to celebrate your parents! I wish I could be there. Very sorry to see that you lost your father at such a young age. If there is a recording of your presentation, I hope you’ll share the link!
They won’t record the live sessions, but we are required to submit prerecorded presentations for later use. The question is how they will use them, and whether/how much it costs. I don’t know at this time.
I have wanted to do a repeat of my 3D Basecamp presentation for the camera and just upload it to my YouTube channel. One other presenter who got COVID last minute and couldn’t leave his room and present did that, I believe.
Luckily that one was history in 1974, but the Graphos and Rotring pens were quite terrible enough too. And the ergonomy. The umage of @RTCool 's mother is a good demonstration of why I got rid of my neck and back aches after switching to computers.
