Tag: George Smart
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Raleigh Couple Rescues Midcentury Modern Gem from Certain Demolition: Matsumoto House Will Be Moved Saturday, January 20, 2024
PRESS RELEASE — The 1954 Midcentury Modern house at 606 Transylvania Avenue, Raleigh, designed by internationally renowned architect George Matsumoto for Bill and Betty Weber and once threatened with demolition, will begin its seven-mile journey to a new location on Saturday, January 20, at 6 a.m. The destination: an empty lot on Delmont Street immediately next door to…
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TMH Announces 2011 Macon Smith Research Grant Recipients
To support research into residential modernist architecture and architects October 27, 2011 — David Hill, Assistant Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University’s College of Design, has won a second Mason Smith Research Grant from Triangle Modernist Houses, the non-profit, award-winning organization dedicated to documenting, preserving and promoting modernist residential design. Hill and his…
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Chapel Hill Realtors, Durham Library Host “Mayberry Modernism”
Triangle Modernist Houses’ George Smart will discuss NC’s Modernist legacy. August 4, 2011 (Durham, NC) — George Smart, founder and director of the award-winning non-profit Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), will present his signature talk “Mayberry Modernism: North Carolina’s Modernist Legacy” at the South Regional Library in Durham on August 16 and to the Greater Chapel…
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TMH Founder George Smart To Join Modernism at Risk Panel
The event kicks off Historic Charlotte’s May Preservation Month celebration. April 11, 2011 (Charlotte, NC) – George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), will join other modernist architecture experts when Historic Charlotte, Inc. presents its Modernism At Risk panel discussion on April 19, 2011, at the Wells Fargo Auditorium in Charlotte. The…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Welcomes 2011 Advisory Council
December 6, 2010 (DURHAM, NC) – George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH), has announced the organization’s 2011 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 design in…
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TMH Announces “Where’s George?” Ticket Giveaway for Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series
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…
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Midnight At The Mint with Mayberry Modernism
George Smart of Triangle Modernist Houses Speaks at Pecha Kucha Night Charlotte. September 27, 2010 (CHARLOTTE, NC) — When Pecha Kucha Night Charlotte cranks up its “V.7: Midnight at the Mint” event this Friday in the new Mint Museum at midnight, George Smart of Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) will be there to speak on “Mayberry…
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George Smart To Present “Mayberry Modernism” in Wilmington
April 20, 2010 (WILMINGTON, NC) – George Smart, founder of Triangle Modernist Houses.com, likes to say that the vast collection of modernist houses in the Triangle area is one of North Carolina’s best-kept secrets. That secret is rapidly becoming not-so-secret, however, as he continues his series of speaking engagements across the state. On Monday, May…
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Triangle Modernist Houses.com Presents “Visual Acoustics” at Galaxy Cinema
April 12, 2010 (CARY, NC) –Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) and Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture will conclude this year’s Architecture Movie Series with a special screening of “Visual Acoustics” on Thursday, April 22, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Galaxy Cinema in Cary. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, “Visual Acoustics” celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman…
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“Mayberry Modernism” at AIA Winston-Salem
Founder of TriangleModernistHouses.com Addresses Architects March 8, 2010 (WINSTON-SALEM, NC) – George Smart, founder and director of the award-winning website TriangleModernistHouses.com, will speak March 16 to the Winston-Salem Section of the American Institute of Architects. Smart’s topic will be “Mayberry Modernism: North Carolina’s Modernist Legacy.” “We’re excited about having George Smart,” said Section President Chad…
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