An original Soviet language of Late Modernism rapidly developed. But by the 1960s ... from the circus to the wedding palace. The collective project of building Soviet modernity came to an abrupt end ...

Not entirely, of course. Minoru Yamasaki designed Detroit’s first modernist building in the late 1940s — the Federal Reserve Annex at 160 W. Fort St., now home to the Detroit Free Press.

That’s why the action fund has started a Conserving Black Modernism ... buildings. “I think it’s the story of Black architects looking to the potential for the future in the late 20th ...