Category: architecture
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Triangle Modernist Houses Presents The Max Isley House Tour
December 30, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) – On Saturday, January 9, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), an award-winning educational archive for modernist residential design, will host an exclusive tour of a Durham home designed by architect Max Isley. The architect and his wife Jane, who lived there only a few years,…
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Triangle Modernist Houses.com Hosts Exclusive “I-House” Tour
December 26, 2009 (YOUNGSVILLE, NC) — If your idea of a mobile home is a flimsy metal trailer with ugly air conditioning units sticking out the windows, think again. Clayton Homes has introduced a mobile home – or manufactured home, as they’re now called – that is as Modern (with a capital “M”) as it…
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Triangle Modernist Houses.com Spotlights Pioneering Women
December 21, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) — Women make up half of all students in American graduate schools of architecture today, according to a New York Times report, and roughly 20 percent of the profession, according to the American Institute of Architects. That was not the case from the 1940s through the 1970s. In 1975, women…
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Modern Architecture Advocate/Archivist To Appear On NYC BlogTalkRadio Show
December 10, 2009 (NEW YORK, NY) – What is “modernist” residential design and why is it so important to preserve it? George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses.com, will answer these questions and many more when he appears as Larry Lane’s guest on “Sharing the Passion of Architecture,” a BlogTalkRadio show emanating from…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Welcomes 2010 Advisory Council
December 1, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) – George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH), today announced appointments to the organization’s 2010 Advisory Council. TMH is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to preserve and promote modernist architecture in the Triangle. The award-winning website, now the largest educational and historical archive for modernist residential…
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Frank Harmon Sees Third Green, Regional Project Open in Six Weeks
November 13, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – The new Merchants Millpond Visitors Center and Open Air Classroom Building in Gatesville, NC, has opened to the public, marking the third thoroughly “green” project serving the public that award-winning Raleigh design firm Frank Harmon Architect PA has completed within the past six weeks. The 7,500 square-foot Visitor Center…
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Triangle Modernist Houses.com Announces Architecture Film Series
— Stunning modernist architecture is the star — November 11, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – George Smart, founder and executive director of Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH), has announced the first TMH Architecture Movie Series, four monthly Thursday night events at the Galaxy Cinema in Cary, N.C. The first film is Thursday, December 10 — “Visual Acoustics,”…
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Triangle Modernist Houses To Host “ModStock ’09”
October 19, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring and growing modernist architecture in the Triangle, is throwing a party. On Thursday, November 5, from 6-8 p.m. the non-profit and the AIA/Triangle’s Young Architects Forum (YAF) will present “ModStock ‘09” at Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture Gallery in Cary, and the…
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Frank Harmon Receives Fourth Design Award for Prairie Ridge Ecostation
October 18, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – When the NC Museum of Natural Science’s Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife & Learning won a 2009 Honor Award from the South Atlantic Region (SAR) of the American Institute of Architect, it marked the fourth time architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, has received accolades for his design of this thoroughly…
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New Architecture Column: Raleigh Metro Magazine Announces Mike Welton Will Cover Design Trends, News
October 13, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) — Mike Welton, a contributor on architecture to Dwell Magazine, the New York Times and Interior Design, will begin a new column in Raleigh Metro Magazine in the November 2009 issued titled Form and Function. Welton, who lives in Wake Forest, NC, will cover news, people and events in the…
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