Far away from the snowscapes peppering the rest of the country, the salt flats and dry martinis of Palm Springs exists in a time and place apart. An original enclave of midcentury modernism, Palm Springs has been able to preserve that heritage thanks in large part to Palm Springs Modernism Week, a series of events, lectures and tours whose proceeds go straight back into local architectural preservation and advocacy.
On this episode, we discuss Palm Springs' modernism in the midst of the city's generational transition, and feature a conversation Paul and Amelia had with PSMOD board member, Mark Davis. We also check in on another (contested) southern Californian icon – the Broad Museum, which opened for a one-day public sneak peek last Sunday.
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Listen to episode seventeen of Archinect Sessions, "From the 101 to the 60 to the 10 to the 111" :
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Shownotes:
NOMA competition
Robert R. Taylor, first accredited African American architect (he went to MIT not Harvard, oops! - DS)
"She had got it." Razan Abu-Salha remembered by her architecture professor, and Donna's memorial post.
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Can anyone identify the project featured in the Session 17 image?
Project pictured is Sunnylands Resort, designed by A. Quincy Jones for the Annenbergs.
where is the show note for the architect-comedian who makes fun of modernism?
Wait, who? I don't remember what you're talking about, Nam.
Maybe related: I went to a fundraiser for the Kurt Vonnegut Museum here in Indy on Sunday night. The guest was Lewis Black, who did a comedy routine but also talked about how Vonnegut's writings had deeply influenced his life.
The event was held in our Central public Library in the main atrium space, which is a newish connector between the historic Paul Cret library and the new wing that was added around 10 years ago. It's the "Information Hall" and is a big skylit space:
Lewis Black made a joke about this enormous space and how he liked thinking of it stuffed full of people looking for information, that in Indy we are so hungry for knowledge that we needed a huge Information hall to accommodate all the questioning people...
It's a nice image. Optimistic!
@Donna, @ 1:12:59 Mark Davis references an Australian architect comedian. Ross something...
Is he talking about Tim Ross perhaps? Although it isn't clear to me that he is in fact an architect as much as an MCD architecture fan...
Good point Nam, I think you found it – Tim Ross and Kit Warhurst performed at the Hotel Lautner during Modernism Week, as The Man About the House.
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