Category: architecture
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“Appetite4Architecture” Dinner Features Special Guest Frank Harmon
The first in a series of dinners sponsored by Triangle Modernist Houses. January 18, 2012 (Raleigh, NC) – Frank Harmon FAIA, founder and principal of the award-winning firm Frank Harmon Architect PA in Raleigh, will be a featured guest at the first 2012 “Appetite4Architecture” dinner on Tuesday, January 31, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in 18…
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The TMH/Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series Presents “How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?”
A documentary on the celebrated British architect Norman Foster. January 3, 2011 (Cary, NC) — Triangle Modernist Houses continues the 2011-2012 Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series this month with a special screening of “How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?” a documentary on the life and works of one of the world’s premier architects, Norman…
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The House That Steve Jobs Grew Up In, And How It Shaped Apple
Essay and sketches by Frank Harmon, FAIA “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us,” Winston Churchill said, and perhaps no place has the power to shape us like the place where we grow up. Lyndon Johnson was born in the hardscrabble and desperately poor Hill Country of Texas. His life and political…
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Frank Harmon Discusses The New AIA NC Center for Architecture and Design in New Video
Harmon and landscape architect Gregg Bleam talk about the design process. December 6, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — Architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, of Frank Harmon Architect PA, recently posted a new video on his website (www.frankharmon.com) in which he and landscape architect Gregg Bleam discuss the design process behind the soon-to-be-completed AIA NC Center for Architecture…
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Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series Presents Louis Sullivan Documentary
Examining the life, career, and influence of the American architect/artist. November 30, 2011 (Cary, NC) — Triangle Modernist Houses continues the 2011-2012 Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series this month with a special screening of “Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture” on Thursday, December 15 at 7:30 p.m, in Cary’s Galaxy Cinema. Directed by Mark Richard…
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Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series Presents Louis Sullivan Documentary
Examining the life, career, and influence of the American architect/artist. November 30, 2011 (Cary, NC) — Triangle Modernist Houses continues the 2011-2012 Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series this month with a special screening of “Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture” on Thursday, December 15 at 7:30 p.m, in Cary’s Galaxy Cinema. Directed by Mark Richard…
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Paul Hobgood Joins Triangle Modernist Houses’ Advisory Council
To assist the non-profit with its ongoing mission. November 30, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) – Paul Hobgood, a design associate in the award-winning architectural firm Kenneth E Hobgood Architects in Raleigh, has been selected to serve on Triangle Modernist Houses’ 2012 Advisory Council. TMH is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to preserve and promote Modernist…
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VMZINC® Enjoys Record Attendance at Expo CIHAC
November 21, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — If attendance at the VMZINC® booth at Expo CIHAC last month is any indication, Mexico will be a thriving market for Umicore Building Products, as the global company anticipates. Expo CIHAC is the premier event in Mexico and Latin America for the building, construction, and housing industries. Held at…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Names 2012 Advisory Council
November 17, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH), has named the organization’s 2012 Advisory Council. TMH is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to preserve and promote Modernist architecture in the Triangle. The award-winning website is now the largest educational and historical archive for Modernist residential design…
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Umicore Building Products Holds Open House in New Headquarters
November 15, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) – Umicore Building Products USA, manufacturer of VMZINC® architectural zinc, held an open house together with its parent company Umicore USA in its new North American headquarters at 3600 Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 1. Umicore invited site managers from North America as well as corporate executives…