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Check out mydesert.com's interactive Modernism Week map, featuring photos and videos of iconic midcentury modern architecture throughout the area.
Examples include:
• Palm Springs City Hall
• Visitors Center/Tramway Gas Station
• Palm Springs International Airport
• And more...
Whether by double-decker bus, bicycle or foot, the tours of classic midcentury homes and buildings were some of the most popular events of Palm Springs Modernism Week.
As one of Palm Springs' leading midcentury modern architects, Donald Wexler has received his share of accolades.
The backyard swimming pool can be an object of desire or a sign of suburban sterility, an icon of the good life or a symbol of its demise. The Palm Springs Art Museum's current show, “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography,” looks at these contradictions and provides a revealing peek at this fixture of Southern California life.
See how Richard Neutra's European styles to Southern California set his work apart from the rest of the midcentry modernism style.
Palm Springs Modernism Week has long been known for celebrating the music of the Rat Pack and its contemporaries, but this year a new generation of modernistas known as the Mid Mod Music Squad are turning the dial and turning up the volume.
Check out how the Edris House, designed by E. Stewart Williams, celebrates the desert’s natural surroundings.
The Palm Springs Visitors Center shows at a glance that Palm Springs is a destination for midcentury modern architecture. Take a look at this and other work by architect Albert Frey.
In Palm Springs' Uptown Design District, you'll see a range of shops selling vintage midcentury modern furniture, antiques, contemporary fashion and home wares, along with a growing number of restaurants. What you won't see is empty store fronts.
E. Stewart Williams designed several prominent Palm Springs buildings, including the Palm Springs Art Museum and parts of City Hall. Find out how his style developed to fit the desert landscape in today’s “Modern Love” video
The hardest thing about touring LivingHomes' supergreen prefab house on Palm Canyon Drive is trying to figure out which of its many energy-efficient and sleek design features is the coolest.
It wasn't an Alexander, but when Paul McCreesh and Chris Lucas saw the midcentury Meiselman home — butterfly roof and all — on North Juanita Road in Palm Springs, they knew they had found their dream house.
Artist Nat Reed is slated to open a pop-up gallery at 388 N. Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs specially for Modernism Week, officials announced.
PALM SPRINGS — Just like Lucy and Desi, Tricia Porter and Victor Otero enjoy the chatty cocktail parties, sleek furnishings, kitschy tiki accessories and the sunburst colors of midcentury Americana.
The prefab modern house that went up on North Palm Canyon Drive on Monday is clean and green and took only about a day to install on a vacant lot north of Alejo Road.
When: February 16-26, 2012
Tickets: Visit www.modernismweek.com to purchase tickets.
Information: For official information, visit www.modernismweek.com.
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