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Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series Presents “Koolhaas HouseLife”

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"House in Bordeaux" designed by Rem Koolhaas

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 Bordeaux), on Thursday, February 17, 7 p.m.. at the Galaxy Cinema in Cary.

 

Koolhaas HouseLife examines daily life inside a masterpiece of modern architecture. Unlike most architecture films, however, this one focuses less on explaining the house and more on letting the viewer experience what Time Magazine named “the best design of 1998” through the eyes of the woman who has to clean it, housekeeper Guadelupe Acedo.

 

Filmmakers Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine interact with Guadalupe during what the Wall Street Journal’s Ada Louise Huxtable calls “a small, smart, gently ironic, thoroughly delightful film that offers an affectionate but unflinching look at the everyday life of a contemporary architectural masterpiece – or what happens to a celebrated building after the photographers are gone.”

 

Tickets to Koolhaas HouseLife are $7.95 in advance or $9 at the door. To see a trailer of the film and to purchase advance tickets, go to www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/register.htm.

 

Sponsors for this screening include Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture, Kontek Systems, Foundation bar and lounge, and Center Studio Architecture.

 

Galaxy Cinema is located at 770 Cary Towne Boulevard. For more information visit www.mygalaxycinema.com.

 

For more information on Triangle Modernist Houses, visit www.trianglemodernisthouses.com.

 

About Triangle Modernist Houses

 

Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to restoring and growing modernist architecture in the Triangle. The award-winning website, now the largest educational and historical archive for modernist residential design in America, continues to catalog, preserve, and advocate for North Carolina modernism.  TMH also hosts popular modernist house tours several times a year, giving the public access to the Triangle’s most exciting residential architecture, past and present. These tours raise awareness and help preserve these “livable works of art” for future generations. Visit the website at www.trianglemodernisthouses.com. TMH also has an active community on Facebook.

Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series Continues with “Sketches of Frank Gehry”

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The second in a series of four films hosted by Triangle Modernist Houses.com

 

January 3, 2010 (CARY, NC) – The second annual Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series, featuring hard-to-find films about Modernist architects and architecture, continues with a special screening of “Sketches of Frank Gehry” directed by Sydney Pollack on Thursday, January 13, 7 p.m. at the Galaxy Cinema in Cary.

 

Presented by the nonprofit historic preservation group Triangle Modernist Houses, “Sketches of Frank Gehry” was Pollack’s first feature-length documentary. Through film, digital video, and deliberate informality, he explores the life, work, and work process of his long-time friend, the brilliant and sometimes controversial Los Angeles architect dubbed “the most important architect of our age” by Vanity Fair.

 

A Pritzker Prize winner, Frank Gehry has created some of the most iconic buildings of the modern era, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, and his own house in Santa Monica. Completed in 1978, Gehry’s house is comprised of an existing Cape Cod house that he surrounded and cut through with a metal and glass addition shot through with implied volumes created by skewed pieces of chain link, wood studs, and glass.

 

Despite his dramatic structures, Gehry is known as a shy and illusive artist. Pollack brings viewers into his world not only through his seemingly informal film style but also through his friendship with Gehry.

 

Tickets to “Sketches of Frank Gehry” are $7.95 in advance or $9 at the door. To see a trailer of the film, the list of upcoming movies in the series, and to purchase advance tickets, go to www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/register.htm.

 

Sponsors for this special screening include Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture, Tonic Design+Construction, Kontech Systems, Foundation bar and lounge, and Center Studio Architecture.

 

Galaxy Cinema is located at 770 Cary Towne Boulevard. For more information visit www.mygalaxycinema.com.

 

For more information on Triangle Modernist Houses, visit www.trianglemodernisthouses.com.

 

About Triangle Modernist Houses

 

Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to restoring and growing modernist architecture in the Triangle. The award-winning website, now the largest educational and historical archive for modernist residential design in America, continues to catalog, preserve, and advocate for North Carolina modernism.  TMH also hosts popular modernist house tours several times a year, giving the public access to the Triangle’s most exciting residential architecture, past and present. These tours raise awareness and help preserve these “livable works of art” for future generations. Visit the website at www.trianglemodernisthouses.com. TMH also has an active community on Facebook.

 

Second Annual Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series Kicks Off with “My Architect: A Son’s Journey”

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The first in a series of four films hosted by Triangle Modernist Houses.com

 

November 29, 2010 (CARY, NC) – The second annual Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series, featuring hard-to-find films about Modernist architects and architecture, opens Thursday, December 16, at 7 p.m. at the Galaxy Cinema in Cary with a special screening of “My Architect: A Son’s Journey.”

 

Presented by the nonprofit historic preservation group Triangle Modernist Houses, “My Architect: A Son’s Journey” is the Oscar-nominated documentary about the life and work of the world-renowned American architect Louis I. Kahn as told by his son, Nathaniel Kahn.

 

One of the most influential architects of the mid-20th century, Kahn’s taught at Yale University in 1947, received his Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 1953, was named Professor of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, and Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. The buildings he designed tended to be monolithic and monumental yet poetic in their use of space and light. His work included such iconic structures as the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh.

 

After returning from a trip to Bangladesh in 1974, Kahn died of a heart attack in a men’s restroom in New York’s Pennsylvania Station. He went unidentified for three days because he had crossed out the home address on his passport. And despite his long career, he was deeply in debt when he died. Nathanial Kahn uses the unusual manner of his father’s death as a point of departure and a metaphor for Kahn’s extraordinary life.

 

Originally released in 2003, “My Architect” offers glimpses of Kahn’s architecture while his son talks with the people who knew him. It includes interviews with some of Kahn’s renowned contemporaries, such as architects B. V. Doshi, Frank Gehry, Ed Bacon, Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, and Robert A. M. Stern. It also offers an insider’s view of Kahn’s eccentric family arrangements.

 

Tickets to “My Architect” are $7.95 in advance or $9 at the door. Tickets to the entire Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series are $27.95. To see a trailer of the film, the list of upcoming movies and to purchase advance tickets, go to www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/register.htm.

 

This screening of “My Architect” is sponsored by Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture, Kontech, LightTech Architectural Lighting Design, Center Studio Architecture, Foundation bar and lounge, and blueplate pr.

 

The Galaxy Cinema is located at 770 Cary Towne Boulevard. For more information visit www.mygalaxycinema.com.

 

For more information on Triangle Modernist Houses, visit www.trianglemodernisthouses.com.

 

About Triangle Modernist Houses

 

Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to restoring and growing modernist architecture in the Triangle. The award-winning website, now the largest educational and historical archive for modernist residential design in America, continues to catalog, preserve, and advocate for North Carolina modernism.  TMH also hosts popular modernist house tours several times a year, giving the public access to the Triangle’s most exciting residential architecture, past and present. These tours raise awareness and help preserve these “livable works of art” for future generations. Visit the website at www.trianglemodernisthouses.com. TMH also has an active community on Facebook. 

TMH Announces “Where’s George?” Ticket Giveaway for Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series

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George Smart, founder/director, Triangle Modernist Houses

November 1, 2010 (CARY, NC) – The Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series, featuring hard-to-find films about Modernist architects and architecture, returns next month to the Galaxy Cinema in Cary. The series is sponsored by the nonprofit historic preservation group Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) and Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture.

 

Starting November 8 at 11 a.m., TMH will announce a secret location on its Facebook page.  TMH Founder George Smart will be there at noon and the first 10 people who meet him receive a pair of free tickets to My Architect on December 16.  Where’s George? giveaways continue on the TMH Facebook page each Monday at 11 a.m. through November 29.

 

TMH Facebook Page:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Triangle-Modernist-Houses/97954432790?ref=mf

 

About The Movie Series

 

The series features one film per month from December 16 through March 17, starting with “My  Architect: A Son’s Journey,” the Oscar-nominated biographical documentary by Nathaniel Kahn on the life and work of his illustrious father, Louis Kahn, FAIA.  On January 13, TMH will screen “Sketches of Frank Gehry.”  “Koolhaas HouseLife” will be the featured film on February 17. The final film on March 17 is “Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee & The Spirit of the Rural Studio.”  Tickets to the Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series are $27.95 for the whole series, $7.95 per movie in advance and $9 at the door.

 

Along with Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture, other movie sponsors include Kontek, LightTech Architectural Lighting Design, Foundation, Center Studio Architecture, blueplate pr, Tonic Design+Construction, The Splinter Group and Blok Architecture.

 

The series is open to the public. For more information on the Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series and to secure advance tickets, visit www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/register.htm.

 

The Galaxy Cinema is located at 770 Cary Towne Boulevard. For more information visit www.mygalaxycinema.com.

 

For more information on Triangle Modernist Houses, visit www.trianglemodernisthouses.com.

 

About Triangle Modernist Houses

 

Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to restoring and growing modernist architecture in the Triangle. The award-winning website, now the largest educational and historical archive for modernist residential design in America, continues to catalog, preserve, and advocate for North Carolina modernism.  TMH also hosts popular modernist house tours several times a year, giving the public access to the Triangle’s most exciting residential architecture, past and present. These tours raise awareness and help preserve these “livable works of art” for future generations. Visit the website at www.trianglemodernisthouses.com. TMH also has an active community on Facebook.