Getty Foundation Awards $1.7M for Modernist Architecture Conservation
The Getty Foundation, located in Los Angeles, is allocating more than $1.7 million for the preservation of 11 notable 20th-century structures as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative. Since its inception in 2014, this program has backed 54 conservation efforts worldwide. Among the funded projects are the National Schools of Art in Havana, managed by Politecnico di Milano; the Rashid Karami International Fairground in Tripoli, Lebanon, in collaboration with UNESCO Beirut; the Gateway Arch in St. Louis; the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, documented by Cultural Heritage without Borders; and various other sites including the Salk Institute in La Jolla and the Engineering Building at the University of Leicester.
Key facts
- Getty Foundation grants over $1.7 million for conservation of 11 modernist buildings
- Keeping It Modern initiative has supported 54 projects since 2014
- National Schools of Art in Havana involve Politecnico di Milano
- Rashid Karami International Fairground in Tripoli by Oscar Niemeyer
- Gateway Arch in St. Louis by Eero Saarinen
- History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo
- Chess Palace and Alpine Club in Tbilisi
- Salk Institute in La Jolla by Louis Kahn
- St. Brendan's Community School in Birr, Ireland
- TU Delft Auditorium in Netherlands
- School of Mathematics at Sapienza University in Rome by Gio Ponti
- Collegi Universitari at Urbino University by Giancarlo De Carlo
- Engineering Building at University of Leicester by James Stirling and James Gowan
Entities
Artists
- Ricardo Porro
- Vittorio Garatti
- Roberto Gottardi
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Eero Saarinen
- Boris Magaš
- Edo Šmidihen
- Radovan Horvat
- Vladimir Aleksi-Meskhishvili
- Germane Gudushauri
- Louis Kahn
- Jonas Salk
- Peter Doyle
- Mary Doyle
- Johannes van den Broek
- Jaap Bakema
- Gio Ponti
- Giancarlo De Carlo
- James Stirling
- James Gowan
Institutions
- Getty Foundation
- Politecnico di Milano
- UNESCO Beirut
- National Park Service
- Cultural Heritage without Borders
- Queen's University Belfast
- TU Delft
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
- University of Leicester
Locations
- Los Angeles
- Havana
- Cuba
- Tripoli
- Lebanon
- St. Louis
- Missouri
- Sarajevo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Tbilisi
- Georgia
- La Jolla
- California
- Birr
- Ireland
- Delft
- Netherlands
- Rome
- Italy
- Urbino
- Leicester
- England