Nonprofit organisation USModernist documents, promotes and preserves North America s modernist architecture. Here, director George Smart names his ten favourites including an airport terminal by Eero Saarinen and a beach house by John Lautner.
Based in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, USModernist has been working since 2007 to document modernist buildings, some of which are under threat, across the continent.
Top: A house by Alber Frey in Palm Springs. Above: George Smart is the founder of USModernist Just like stock car racing or sushi, modernist architecture is not for everybody, Smart told Dezeen. There are some people that just don t like it, and that s fine, he explained. The important thing is that, because there are so few of them, that we recognise that many of these houses are really sculptures that you can live in .
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Southridge Glass House by William Cody.
Photography: James Haefner
Touring modernist homes is an annual staple at the Palm Springs Modernism Week, and the online expression is no exception. Coming in two installments as a video series, tours this year feature iconic architecture and lesser known gems in various of the city’s neighbourhoods. Examples include The Morse Residence (by Hal Levitt, 1961), The Cahuilla Hills House by O’Donnell + Escalante (by Lance O’Donnell, 2009), The Southridge Glass House (by William Cody, 1963), Trina Turk’s Ship of the Desert (by Erle Webster and Adrian Wilson, 1936), and Martyn Lawrence Bullard’s Villa Grigio (by James McNaughton, 1963).
Palm Springs Art Museum will have a new look and new exhibits when it reopens Brian Blueskye, Palm Springs Desert Sun
A classic car soon will be suspended over a body of water will soon be sited in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum if all goes according to plan.
Gonzalo Lebrija s History of Suspended Time: Monument for the Impossible is based on a video captured by the Mexico-based artist of the moment just before the car broke through a lake s surface. Museum leadership hopes to have it installed on the southeast corner of Museum Drive and Museum Way by the end of January.