Category: mid-century architecture
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Triangle Modernist Houses.com Hosts “Architects + Artisans”
January 13, 2010 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH), the largest educational and historical archive for modernist residential design in the nation, will serve as a host site for “Architects + Artisans: Thoughtful Design for a Sustainable World,” a new design blog written and edited by Mike Welton. “Architects + Artisans strives to wire…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Presents Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” at Galaxy Cinema
January 4, 2010 (CARY, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH) and Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture Gallery will present a special showing of “The Fountainhead,” the classic 1949 film based on Ayn Rand’s seminal novel, on Thursday, January 14, at 7 p.m. at the Galaxy Cinema in Cary. “The Fountainhead” screening is part of the Nowell’s 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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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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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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Triangle Modernist Houses’ Raleigh Tour To Spotlight Architects’ Personal Residences
October 1, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – Three Modernist houses that architects designed for their own families in West Raleigh will be the focus of Triangle Modernist Houses’ (TMH) Homes Tour to be held Saturday, November 7, from 1-4 p.m. The tour will spotlight the private residences of architects Thomas Crowder, Raymond Sawyer and Brian Shawcroft.…
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Raleigh Landscape Architect Restores A Mid-Century Garden at UNC-Greensboro
September 13, 2009 (GREENSBORO, NC) – “Attention to the outside environment makes a vast difference in people’s experience of [a] campus,” notes the Society for College and University Planning in an introduction to a webcast the SCUP presented on the need for pleasant outdoor spaces in university settings. Four years ago, Bell/Glazener Design Group, a…
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Local Advocate Hopes Good News for Housing Market Means Good News for Modernist Houses
August 25, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) — After the Associated Press reported last week that “the U.S. housing market is rebounding faster than expected” (News & Observer), George Smart of Durham, NC, the founder and director of Triangle Modernist Archives Inc, (TMA) is hoping some of that momentum will help preserve some of the modern houses…
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