 Another exciting think-tank Hawaii Doko Momo show here and which is probably unique in the country. Doko Momo has many chapters and as far as we know, we might be the only one who have a TV coverage, which is great. And so we're wrapping up a very exciting summer again, where our board members have done a great job in hosting several shows. So please go back if you haven't watched them and watch them. We're not saying only, but probably they sort of conclude now in a very sort of a climax-y way in an event that we're going to talk about today. And we're broadcasting live once again for our very tropical and mid-century modern metropolis of Honolulu. And you might say, well, that can be argued. Who says that? And obviously we say that, but we're biased. But now this event is sort of verifying that this is not just our opinion. This is the opinion of, we can say, the world because it's an international organization. And we have the perfect co-host today of this show, who is our president of the chapter Hawaii. And please, Graham, welcome, first of all. Thank you. Happy to be back again and again. And please, always. And of course, and please share with us what exciting event that is that we're spearheading. Sure, I'd be happy to. So, yeah, as Martin said, we were working for months now, all gearing up towards this event. And also, as Martin said, Tokomomo is this international organization, right? And there's a U.S. kind of branch to it. And we're part of that. And there's many chapters all around. And every year, national hosts a symposium. The last year was in Columbus, the year before that was in Arizona. And we won the bid to host here in Honolulu. So it's at the end of September. It's a huge honor for us to be hosting it. And it's something we're all pretty excited about and been ramping up to do. So it's a big honor, a pretty big deal. And there are events in the world. So it's even international. We have people from all over the world even visiting. So it's even bigger than already big. Yeah, totally. So like next year, there's going to be one in Tokyo, right? So it kind of puts us on par with these other metropolises, as you said, with these great mid-century modern resources. So it's a pretty big thing for Honolulu. At least we think so. Yeah, the world now things. So let's go, because you brought a couple of images here from sort of the program. And so let's walk through them and bring up the first slide here. And the event, it's going to be four days, right? Yeah. So it's September 25th through the 28th. So Thursday through or Wednesday through Saturday event. But yeah, the whole theme of the conference, which we want to kind of talk about to lead us off with is this idea of mixed modern and modernism in this multi-ethnic, you know, multicultural context. So if we go to that first slide, so to speak, the next one. Yeah, there you go. So mixed modern, modern architecture in a multicultural context. That's the theme we're going with. And that kind of helped us to tell the story of our unique brand of modernism here in Hawaii. So again, it's four days long and it's starting off on that Wednesday. So if you're wondering what the project is that you guys choose for the for the shot here, these are the Kahala apartments, which are part of the Kahala Hilton. No Mandarin. And we have one of the speakers, Ron Lindgren, coming, being a speaker on Friday. And we've been in touch and said we should probably do a couple of shows to dive deeper into the into the work of his firm, which was together with Edward Killingsworth. So again, this is a very unique project. That is also we did a human human architecture show about it because it's one that we're worried about because Doko Momo, who doesn't know means documenting and conserving. So there's a great emphasis on CEO here because Kamehameha School, who is the landowner, this is on leasehold and there are very few years left. And then we're all very worried for this to maybe not be there anymore. So again, that's sort of the proactive part of Doko Momo to keep these goodies, right? Yeah, definitely. We want to kind of celebrate them and put them in public attention so that everyone else kind of fights for them. And it's not just a small group of, you know, architects and architecture enthusiasts. All right. Speaking of which, let's move on to the next page and the first day, the kickoff as it says here. Yeah. Another very legendary project here, probably not as threatened as the previous one. No, I think that they're pretty safe. So this is going to be the whole day is at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki. Beautiful private beach club designed by Vladimir Asipov. And we're excited to be having, you know, our first day of just check in and meetings and things like that. But then that night we're having kind of like this opening kickoff reception. Sid Snyder, Asipov's former business partner who was also a guest on the show previously. He's going to come in and talk about a little bit about the architecture of the building and a little bit of, you know, Asipov's kind of legacy in Hawaii. Yeah, yeah. Now that was you having been the host, great show. I loved it. Yeah, it was an honor to have him. It gave great insight. And I would be there because he assigned me to be at the door, so I was signing in people. So talking, signing in, please encourage people to go on the website. And it's such a great event. Such things are already sold out, which is a great compliment. But there are many, there's still some spots, so please snap them, right? Yeah, definitely. We're anticipating over 200 guests so far. We've got tours every day, which we'll go into. And yeah, as you said, a lot of them are selling out. We're trying to expand them so we can accommodate more people. But it's a big event. Awesome. All right. So let's see what's all going on there. Let's go to the next slide, which is actually getting us to our hood that we live in at both at the opposite ends. But still, we're representatives. We're Waikikians, so that's one of the things that's going to be a tour, right? Yeah, definitely. So on the first day, while everyone's kind of getting in and settled, we're going to have two self-guided tours. One of them is the Gold Coast tour that we actually did a couple of years ago for Dokomomo's tour day. And then the other one is this Waikiki mid-century tour that actually we're kind of co-hosted with Surfjack Hotel and Swim Club. So it's going to be kind of in and around there, some great gems to go check out and kind of add your leisure on that first day. We encourage people to join us and become mid-century Waikikians as well. You did a couple of shows about the architect of your building at Winbauer and the Kalia. And I did a show about my building, which is an Ernest Hara building, the Waikiki Grand. So we're kind of fisheries from that era. We bookend Waikiki. Exactly. And we enjoy the easy breezy nature of them on a daily basis. Definitely. There's many more out there, so join us, sort of scavenger hunting them and hunting them down and seeing them. Okay, what else do you have, Graham? Let's go to the next one. So on Thursday, we're kind of changing venues and we're going to go up to the east-west center at the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus. We're going to be in the IMPAY designed building here on the screen. And the theme of that day is going to be East meets West. So in the beginning, in the morning, we have kind of a couple of lectures happening, two sessions. The first one is this kind of Hawaii overview, which Glenn Mason, architect and architectural historian here in town of Mason Architects, is going to be speaking first. And then I'll be talking a bit about kind of the mid-century context for Hawaii. And then the second half is about the Asian influences that came into Hawaii and kind of influenced our modernism in a unique way. We have Allison Chu, Alyssa Carson talking about Asian influences in Hawaii. Larry Minatoishi of Minatoishi Architects is going to come in and talk about kind of Japanese architecture in Hawaii. And then Luca Guido, who's going to be our fourth kind of guest and lecturer about kind of the bunch of homegrown architects that were from Hawaii, went off to school in the mainland and came back and what how they're kind of influenced by the legacy. You guys couldn't have found a better stage for that because the late IMPAY, who has just passed away after a very successful long life, he turned 101 or something like that. Yeah, incredible. And he said the architect of that beautiful piece of architecture that we also touched upon here and there and human-human architecture, mainly about his dormitory next door, the Hala Manoa. So you guys will see all that and truly enjoy that. This is a treasure. And it is up the hill where we also work, the University Hill, but it's not officially part of the University of Manoa. It's a separate independent entity in there. But needless to say, we will get up next door as well. So let's go to the next page here. This is still part of actually the East West Center complex. This is one of the dorms. But again, as we said, there will be tours of everything else above and beyond that enclave within the larger part of the university, right? Yeah, so in between going from the morning sessions of lectures to our afternoon tours, we're actually having kind of lunch and then a walking tour of campus. Because you've done a couple of shows on it actually of all the great mid-century buildings there on campus. So we're having this walking tour from East West over to the School of Architecture, where we're having a gallery exhibition on all of those buildings. And so you guys can kind of find out more about them and learn about them. And see some old photos as well as some new photos of them. So that's going to be kind of a cool thing that's going to be up, I think, from the beginning of this symposium, I think up until the rest of the year. It's going to be showing up through this semester. There's a little reception up there thanks to the Tropical Tutor Bill that we're also at here as a guest twice. And so he is very welcoming and supports the event a lot. And coming from history and his passion for tropical modernism was easy for him. So thank you Bill for that. It's great. So looking forward to that event as well. And there's a couple of our emerging talents basically being posted at the buildings and telling the visitors the stories. Exactly. Yeah. We should have a bunch of people helping us out that day. Absolutely. So let's move on. What's next? So the tours in the afternoon, we have four tours every day. And two of them, the walking tour and the Mckiki modern walking tour. We're actually two past walking tour days, walking day tours that we've had. And they're going to be pretty great, great little enclaves of little neighborhoods for gems. And then on the bottom, we've got these two kind of very exclusive and already sold out tours that we're trying to expand possibly. One of them is going to go see the residences designed by Wimberley and Cook. So Pete Wimberley, which DeSoto has done a show on. We're going to see his house and then across the street is the Earl Ernst house, which is another just great gem of a residence here in Hawaii. And then the other spot is we're going to have three days actually. It's the first day of Asipoff tours, rotating Asipoff tours. So this day we're going to see Bachmann Hall, which is pictured. We're going to swing by Hamilton Library and see the Asipoff documents. And then we're going to go up to Little Strand House. So it's going to be quite the tour. You can see a lot of things. And it covers obviously different typologies, which is great. While the previous one was more institutional architecture, this is more personal and private and private residences. So the visitors will see how ingrained and everything was infused by that era. And it didn't exclude any kind of building type. Definitely. This is single-family homes. This is university buildings, multi-family, everything. Sounds great. But then again, while we're in the tropics and we have the sun all the time, we have tropical temperatures by the end of the summer here. People are probably going to be up for some tropical delights. And it gets us to the next page here. You take care of that too. Sure, yeah. So that night, we have a free event with three different restaurants participating in Waikiki. We've got Mohino and Sons at Surf Jack. We've got Tommy Bahamas. And we've got Leilo, their bar there at the hotel. And we're doing this cocktail club kind of a bar crawl between those three spots. They're actually creating some mid-century, modern themed cocktails for us for those different spots. So it's going to be a drawing and a lot. It's kind of a thing to cool people off at the end of the day and bring people together. Awesome. Bring back the tiki that again, unfortunately, we've addressed that frequently in the shows with the Soto that people consider us to be the epicenter of tiki as well. But in fact, we don't have much left. So we need to sort of rejuvenate that culture pretty much. So this seems a good opportunity to do that. So then that's the end of Thursday. So then comes Friday. And Friday starts in another part of town, which is more sort of official center, political epicenter in town. And then we go to the next page here. And one of the most prominent buildings right for that era on a large scale. Yeah. So we're going to be at the Hoi State Capital. And it's actually coinciding with the State Capital's 50th anniversary since it was built. So perfect timing to be having a part of our Dokmomo Symposium there. The morning session is going to be called Welcome to Paradise, where we've got a bunch of speakers again with two different sessions. The first one is Paradise Paradigms. Perfect title. Yeah, it's a good title. Soto Brown, your co-host, is going to be speaking for a little bit. Kirsten Faulkner of Historic Hoi is going to be speaking for a bit. And then the second session is going to be Designing Paradise, where we've got Don Hibbert and Ron Lindgren. Yeah, both talking about Don and Ron. They're both talking about designing Hoi's resort architecture. Yeah. And it's also the title of a book. That is the must-read book on the island at Don Road. Yeah. Ron is a participant in the book with a many projects as the Kahala Hilton, Kahala Kalani, and many other buildings in town. So that's, again, that's going to be two great panels that puts it into perspective of the zeitgeist first of all. That's kind of the first half of that and then dive deeply into the grain of it and have case studies. So that's great in everything on this sort of perfect stage on a building that sort of successfully walks on that sort of fine line that modernism wasn't able to do anymore after that on being just as literal or inspirational, interpretative as you want to be without being actual. And so what you see is you could see a volcano in there, but you don't have to. You could see chunks of homilives in there, but you don't have to. That was so great about that. Yeah. That is worth rethinking and revisiting. So let's move on to the next day here, which is another walking tour, right? So yeah, we've got two walking tours in the afternoon on Friday. One is the capital district. There's so many great buildings around the state capital. There's the Board of Water Supply by Hartwood and many others. So that's going to be a good kind of walking tour. We're actually going to be able to get into the Board of Water Supply. I've never been inside. People are going to be able to go across that kind of famous bridge over the roadway there. That's a pretty cool tour looking forward to that. And then also one, starting from the state capital, walking up to the Queen Emma Gardens, the Yamasaki building, there at the end with those three towers. And kind of in between there, there's so many other great gems and resources of great mid-century architecture. And after that successful day of walking, again, party time, it's going to be at one other legendary icon that is a good example that the CEO Indoko Momo has been working because that project was initially planned to be demolished by its new owner, Heart Use Corporation, and based upon sort of a group of three, but leading to the Dokomomo Board of people here, it was saved. And so let's watch that one and you tell us more what the event in and around it is. Next picture, please. So yeah, so after the day of two walking tours and two bus tours, we're going to have our wrap-up party at the IBM building. Iconic IBM building right there in Alamwana Boulevard, designed by Asapov. It's going to be a great event and it's kind of a great way to kind of wrap up the two days or three days at that point of lectures and tours and everything. Very exciting. And for the ones who haven't had enough yet, right, there's a Saturday. Let's hop onto that one, so let's get to the next picture here. So because there's so many great resources in Honolulu, Saturday is just dedicated to tours and Holo-Holo is the theme, getting around and seeing everything. So actually, we could just dive right into them on the next page. We've got four tours, two in the morning, two in the afternoon. The two in the morning, we've got one that's visiting a bunch of mid-century churches and sacred sites. One that's going to be visiting the Kahala Hilton, Kahala Hotel, as well as the Sharlow House, and the Goodsill House. We've kind of framed it as Kahala Modern. That tour, one, that's going to be visiting Valley of the Temples and a bunch of other kind of memorials. Back in the day, they were designed, even really included as one of the architects. And then the Asapov Tour in the afternoon is also going to visit the Goodsill House, the Little Shrine House, and Bakken, or other things, too. And we urge everyone to go again online, go on the website, and you guys, maybe you want to mention the ones involved and all the, well, everyone was involved, but also the marketing material and all the stuff is really awesome. And so there's great sort of online PDF tour guides that one can print out or have on your device and take with you both of tours they're given. So, obviously, there will be more by the tour leaders, but they're also self-guided tours, right? That's right, yeah. We've got a lot of kind of tour resources to see the history of some of these buildings. And a lot of them are just within walking distance. Urban Honolulu. So it's really just sort of almost appetizers like poo-poo, right? Or hopefully getting more and more hungry and then venturing out as we do all the time. I know whenever we bump into each other then we say, hey, we saw this awesome thing that we haven't seen before and we ran into this person here who's an eyewitness. So it's a really interesting ongoing process as well as, again, having to be proactive. We will have probably one of our doko photos is, again, a sad one because talking Pete Wimberley his varsity building that we've been doing a show about probably as it looks like won't be able to be saved. So this is our last chance to document it without being able to conserve it, which is really sad. Reminds me of when people get old and then all they do is go to each other's funeral parties and they never want a doko moment to be that way. So for years I've been advocating to be more proactive and maybe have each and every one of us adopt the building. Like you adopt the beach to clean up, you adopt the building and then you first and foremost talk about and then you educate its owner and then once you educated them they're probably more likely to first of all appreciate and then maybe don't sort of become a victim of a temptation of novelty so easy as usually when people are not informed. That's something that we constantly talk about and again thanks for being the president for us this year it's such an important milestone of our pretty new chapter right I think we're five years so this is a huge success to have such an important event so soon after our birth. And I want to bring up one more slide actually because you just talked about a couple of things we can go to the next one talk about P. Wimberley and the varsity building so on Saturday night there's going to be an exhibition kind of opening at Fishcake on Wimberley's kind of legacy his residential work his hospitality work and a bunch of other projects and that's going to be up just only two weeks but it'll be kind of a great thing open to the public to go see and check out there's a little plug for that maybe sneaky and extend some invitations to some owners of Pete's buildings even going back to Kamehameha school who owned the varsity building and saying you know just so you know and with whatever he do now he do with knowing can't say oh I didn't know because that's too easy excuse right so yeah I mean that's just excellent and here I was when I was preparing one of the next shows with the Soto which is about skins which is almost challenging but we believe maybe one of the most relevant we always wanted to do and it's about the first the second and the third skin and also the relationship of a dress code and a dress code and Pete is usually wearing shorts as if the camera could look down on us we insist to do that no matter of where we are and so here he wears these sort of funny pants they're not shorts I don't know for what reason but again usually he did and his architecture here is very sort of textual right so contextual according to filtering the light and the sun so it's both at the same time so that's definitely something that we continue to you know continue to teach us you know from these let us be taught by these masters definitely and I know you've always been very inspired by that throughout your education which we had the privilege to be part of when you were still in school not a long ago so I think that's a great you sort of pass on that passion keep the torch going awesome yeah so we can phase out and bring up the sort of the sunset and yeah sort of cover here again again these are four days that we hope to see everyone out there for the different events the hype of tropical modernism here that you know us living here has become sort of a secret treasure and but out there in the world it's been celebrated more than we actually are aware of that there's a whole monocle magazine you know city guides that is highly dwelling upon that and doing that there's a wallpaper and unfortunately they're not available on the island it's as bad as that hopefully the world coming to us now makes us a lot more aware of what we have there's anything that the symposium can do I believe that's it yeah well in September it's going to be modernism month and so there's a whole bunch of events not just the symposium we're actually talking tomorrow night at the Hawaii State Art Museum and then something coming up this first Friday as well a big kind of modernism fashion show and things like that so this is I think people are waking up to it and yeah we're in a good spot alrighty well thank you so much for having beer having beer as well along the lines there was a Freudian slip so thanks Graham definitely see you all at the symposium and obviously see you for new shows in the future both Okonomo and Human-Humane architecture but again first and foremost the symposium and until then please stay tropically modern and more downly tropical bye-bye