Modern structures in Kuwait, Nigeria, Senegal, Chile, and more selected for conservation grants by Getty Foundation

The Getty Foundation has selected 13 pivotal Modernist structures located around the world to receive funding for conservation and restoration initiatives as part of its Keeping It Modern Architecture Conservation Grants program. 

Below is a list of 2020 grants awarded: 

Dudley and West Midlands Zoological Society Limited 
Tecton Buildings at Dudley Zoo and Castle, Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton, 1937, Dudley, West Midlands, United Kingdom 

Ministère du Commerce et des Petites et Moyennes entreprises du Sénégal 
Centre International du Commerce Extérieur de Dakar, Jean-François Lamoureux and Jean-Louis Marin, 1974, Dakar, Senegal 

National Council for Culture, Art and Letters 
Abraj Al-Kuwait (Kuwait Towers), Malene Bjørn, 1976, Kuwait City, Kuwait 

Obafemi Awolowo University 
Obafemi Awolowo University, Arieh Sharon, 1962-76, Ife-Ife, Nigeria 

Schusev State Museum of Architecture 
White Tower, Moisei Reisher, 1929-1931, Ekaterinburg, Russia 

Stichting Gerrit Rietveld Academie te Amsterdam, Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving 
Rietveld Academie, Gerrit Rietveld, 1963, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

Technische Universität Berlin 
Oberstufen-Schulzentrum Wedding, Pysall, Jensen, Stahrenberg & Partner, 1976, Berlin, Germany

Universidad del Desarrollo 
Monasterio Benedictino de la Santísima Trinidad de las Condes, Brother Martín Correa and Gabriel Guarda OSB, 1964, Santiago, Chile 

Universidade do Porto 
Swimming Pools in Leça, Álvaro Siza, 1966, Porto, Portugal 

World Monuments Fund 
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Charles Correa, 1966, Ahmedabad, India 

The following building received a Keeping It Modern planning grant in 2019 and has received another this year for the immediate stabilization of its interior artwork. 

Deutsches Nationalkomitee von ICOMOS e.V. 
Buzludzha Monument, Georgi Stoilov, 1981, Hadzhi Dimitar Peak, Bulgaria  

The following two buildings received earlier Getty grants for conservation research and planning and are now receiving implementation grants to support treatment efforts. 

Highland Green Foundation 
First Presbyterian Church, Wallace K. Harrison, 1958, Stamford, Connecticut  

Panjab University 
Gandhi Bhawan, Pierre Jeanneret, 1962, Chandigarh, India  

Obafemi Awolowo University
Obafemi Awolowo University - Obafemi Awolowo University was part of a wave of higher education centers built after Nigeria's independence from Britain in 1960 to establish the country as a new, modern nation. Designed by Israeli architect and former Bauhaus student Arieh Sharon in collaboration with Nigerian architectural firms, the campus reflects the merging of Bauhaus principles with tropical modernism. The result is a collection of structures that foreground functionality and simplicity as well as climate-responsive design principles for this equatorial region. For the main buildings, Sharon chose the motif of an inverted pyramid, which allowed the upper floors to provide protection from the sun and rain while promoting ease of movement and proper ventilation on the ground floors. The architect also integrated sculptural elements of local Yoruba culture and geometric shapes rendered in concrete into the entrances of several buildings, successfully blending diverse visual languages.  © Arieh Sharon Digital Archive – ariehsharon.org / The Yael Aloni Collection