Category: architecture
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Triangle Modernist Houses Makes Docomomo-US Newsletter
NC Advocacy organization is featured in national news brief February 22, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), the award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to archiving, preserving and promoting modernist residential design, is featured in the “Advocacy Spotlight” for the month of February in the Docomomo-US Newsletter. Docomomo is an acronym for the DOcumentation…
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Charlotte’s Oldest Mid-Century Modern House Faces Demolition
Bulldozers will come in June if it’s not sold. February 23, 2011 (CHARLOTTE, NC) – The Lassiter House, the oldest identified Modernist house in Charlotte, and one of the few designed by architect A.G. Odell still standing, will be torn down if not sold by June. The house’s only owners put their three-bedroom,…
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Frank Harmon To Address Wisconsin Audience for AIA Lecture Series
Raleigh architect will discuss modern, sustainable, regionally appropriate design in Madison. February 18, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of Frank Harmon Architects PA in Raleigh, will be the featured speaker for the Wright Lecture Series in Madison, Wisconsin, on March 10, beginning 7 p.m. in the Monona Terrace Community & Convention Center.…
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Triangle Architecture Fans Head “Downeast”
Spotlighting three Modernist houses in Rocky Mount and Greenville, NC. February 15, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) will host its first “Downeast Modernist Tour” of three houses in Rocky Mount and Greenville, NC, on Saturday, March 12. The tour is open to the public with advance reservations through the TMH website.…
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Charleston Architect Serves on Custom Home Design Awards Jury
Studio A’s Whitney Powers helps select the nation’s best custom-designed houses. February 10, 2011 (CHARLESTON, SC) – Whitney Powers, AIA, founder and principal of Studio A Architecture in Charleston, flew to Washington, DC, late last month to serve on the jury for the 2011 Custom Home Design Awards program, sponsored by Custom Home Magazine.…
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TMH Honors North Carolina’s Pioneering Black Architects
The new online archive celebrates early Carolina pioneers February 4, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – To honor Black History Month, Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH) has launched a new online archive entitled “Pioneering Black Architects in North Carolina.” The series is a sequel to last year’s popular “Pioneering Women in North Carolina Architecture.” This series…
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Frank Harmon To Lecture In Nova Scotia
Raleigh architect to address Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture February 4, 2011 (RALEIGH, NC) – Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of the award-winning firm Frank Harmon Architect PA in Raleigh, NC, will present a lecture at the Dalhousie University School of Architecture in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Monday, February 28, followed by studio critiques on Tuesday,…
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Guest Feature: “The Bridge Across The Rio Grande”
By Frank Harmon, FAIA February 2011 (with sketches by Frank Harmon) The bridge across the Rio Grande between Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, is only a few hundred feet long, but the apparent distance between the two cities is far greater. Like many American cities, Laredo is laid out in broad blocks…
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Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series Presents “Koolhaas HouseLife”
The third of four architecture films hosted by Triangle Modernist Houses.com February 1, 2011 (CARY, NC) – The second annual Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series features hard-to-find films about Modernist architects and architecture. The series continues this month with a special screening of Koolhaas HouseLife, featuring architect Rem Koolhaas’ 1998 Maison a Bordeaux (House in…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Launches Second Frank Lloyd Wright Tour
Architecture fans’ weekend trip includes Wrights’ Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob January 25, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Responding to demand to repeat last year’s Frank Lloyd Wright / Fallingwater Architecture Tour, Triangle Modernist Houses and director George Smart have offered another weekend excursion for architecture enthusiasts: a trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s world-famous Pennsylvania houses on…
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