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Modernism Week is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Palm Springs, California that provides public education programming fostering knowledge and appreciation of modern architecture, the mid-century modern architecture and design movement, the Palm Springs School of Architecture, as well as contemporary considerations surrounding historic preservation, cultural heritage, adaptive reuse, and ...
Palm Springs Desert Museum: Established: 1938 () Location: PSAM (main) 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA, 92262 Architecture & Design Center 300 S. Palm Canyon Palm Springs, CA Faye Sarkowsky Sculpture Garden 72-567 Highway 111, Palm Desert, California 92260: Coordinates
The Palm Springs School of Architecture, often called Desert Modernism, [1] is a regional style of post-war architecture that emerged in Palm Springs, California. [2] Many of the architects who pioneered this style became world-renowned later in their own careers. Numerous buildings and homes by these architects remain in the Coachella Valley.
Albert Frey's Aluminaire House built in 1931 finds its way to the Palm Springs Art Museum following uncertainty about its future. America's first all-metal-and-glass house is reborn in Palm ...
William Francis Cody (1916 – 1978) was an influential desert modern architect working in Palm Springs during the peak of the Modern Architecture Movement. Like many of the architects during the mid-20th century, Cody designed almost anything Palm Springs allowed him to; houses, cluster housing, churches, offices, restaurants, schools, hotels, and club houses.
Overview of the central plaza of the Maya city of Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico), an example of Classic period Mesoamerican architecture. Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, traditions which are best known in the form of public, ceremonial and urban monumental buildings and structures.
Adam Lerner is the JoAnn McGrath Executive Director/CEO of Palm Springs Art Museum, a position he assumed in July 2021. In this capacity, he oversees the museum's permanent collection of over 12,000 art objects including the Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion, and Frey House II .
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