An extension of its interest in collecting the significant objects and ephemera of 20th century Long Island, SPLIA is making a concerted effort to document architectural Modernism on
Long Island. Kicking off this effort was a lecture last Spring entitled “Endangered Modernism on Long Island: Icons of the Recent Past”, by Caroline Rob Zaleski, Modernism expert and SPLIA’s researcher for the survey.

Because such structures are relatively new to Long Island’s built environment, spanning the years from the 1920s to the 1970s , time is of the essence, as many are threatened by changing tastes and the scarcity of building sites. A surprising number have been found intact and potentially available for historical and architectural inter-pretation. If you know of any architect designed structures built during this period and clearly based on the Modern movement, please contact the SPLIA office. SPLIA is interested both in known existing Modernist structures as well as in historical photographs and plans of demolished or altered structures. We also want to know of people who can provide personal recollections of and experience
with figures such as Marcel Breuer, Aymar Embury III, Wallace Harrison, Ladislav Rado, Antonin Raymond, Edward Durrell Stone, Frank Lloyd Wright or his disciples, and other architects of Modernism.