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2018 NCModernist Events
December 2018 Thirst4Architecture, Raleigh  Raleigh Denim Workshop and Curatory, 319 West Martin Street, Raleigh. Food, drink, and holiday market and tour where they make jeans! Raleigh Denim Workshop is an American enterprise / art project / romantic adventure started by Sarah Yarborough and Victor Lytvinenko. 85 people attended. December 2018 Quiet Elegance: The Architecture of Hugh Kaptur (2013) This film celebrates the architecture of Hugh Kaptur who has been designing Modernist homes, hotels, commercial buildings and apartment complexes in Southern California for more than 50 years. 28 people attended. November
2018 175 people attended. Thirst4Architecture
We joined Jason Queen at the Ware Townhomes and a party hosted at the Transfer Company next door, a 43,000sf food hall . 200 people attended.November 2018 Alliance of Interior Designers at AIA North Carolina  George Smart spoke on Mayberry Modernism. 47 people attended. November 2018 One Big Home (2016)  A carpenter in Martha's Vineyard takes off his tool belt and over ten years documents homeowners and builders and the community as giant houses take over the island. Produced by Thomas Bena.Afterwards, we had Q&A with Thomas via phone.
USModernist Frank Lloyd Wright Modernist Phoenix Tour
USModernist's trip to Phoenix, the desert city Frank Lloyd Wright made his western headquarters at Taliesin, was four nights and five days of sunny mid-century architecture, from art to furnishings to lifestyles to food to houses!  Harold Price House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright  Phoenix Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien  Taliesin West, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright  Musical Instrument Museum, designed by RSP Architects  Arcosanti, designed by Paulo Soleri  David Wright House, by Frank Lloyd Wright  24 people attended. October
2018 200 people attended. October 2018
All aboard! NCModernist went to Lexington on our own private air-conditioned, wifi-equipped, restroom-equipped Amtrak car! Wait a minute - Amtrak doesn't stop in Lexington. One day a year it does, and this is the day. 60 people signed up.
October 2018
Robby and Craig and the crew of Raleigh Architecture hosted at their new office, 716 South Saunders Street, Raleigh. 105 people attended. October 2018
 Sponsored by Great Wagon Road Vodka. 95 people attended. October
2018
Face of a
Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair?
Daughter of
immigrants, a 1st generation architect Mina Chow struggles to keep
her dream alive as she journeys to discover why America abandoned
World's Fairs, global spectacles that featured amazing architecture.
38 people attended.
September 2018
The Patel House, Chapel Hill, designed by
Phil
Szostak, built by Bold Construction
Fairview, Durham, designed by
Alicia
Hylton-Daniel
The Tricoci-Melloni House, Hillsborough, designed by
Heather
Washburn, built by Bold
Construction
The Skumanich-Chase House, designed by
Ellen
Cassilly, built by Newphire Building Company
The Fraser House, Chapel Hill, designed by
Dail Dixon, built
by BuildSense
September
2018 275 people attended. September 2018
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Mill Run PA.
Did you know that just a few miles away, there's another remarkable Wright house, Kentuck Knob, and its world-class outdoor sculpture garden?
21 people attended. Did you miss it? We go every fall. September 2018
Co-hosted by Tactile, a multidisciplinary architecture and design firm, and Artish Studio who wants everyone to be an artist with modern art, furniture, and accessories. 85 people attended. September 2018 The Blue Haven House Tour Raleigh NCModernist toured the 1959 Williams House, aka Blue Haven, the family home of famed Raleigh architect Carter Williams. One of the most remarkable Modernist houses in Raleigh ever built, it was nicknamed for its distinctive Carolina blue stone. Dick Bell was the landscape architect. 260 people attended.
August
2018
300 people attended.
August 2018
USModernist Organizing Party Los Angeles
August 2018
Thirst4Architecture POD Architecture and Design, Carrboro 
70 people explored the pod office in Carrboro. July
2018 250 people attended.
July 2018
 2018
Recognizing Excellence in North Carolina Modernist Residential Design 2018 Jury Winners
People’s Choice Winners, voted on by the public
Video of People's Choice Winners
Photos by Ormando Harris. 110 people attended. July
2018
225 people attended. June
2018 150 people attended.
June 2018
45 people explored the latest in home audio and theatre technology.
May
2018
Creative Mornings CAM, Raleigh  250 people attended.
May 2018
Thirst4Architecture Rivers Agency, Chapel Hill  95 people attended at an office interior designed by Phil Szostak, who spoke about the building.
May 2018
NCModernist Global Three Tour Berlin and Zurich  Flex House, Zurich  Hotel Bellevue, Lucerne  Nhow Hotel  Haus Corbu 26 toured Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein in amazing weather - with no crowds!
April
2018
Creative Mornings CAM, Raleigh  NCModernist sponsored Creative Mornings starting this month. 320 people attended.
April 2018
65 people attended on a perfect spring evening. Photo by Ormando Harris.
April 2018
 George Smart spoke at the New York School of Interior Design. 50 students attended.
April 2018
 George Smart spoke at the Center for Architecture Sarasota. 45 people attended. 
April 2018 A great day touring new and recently-renovated Modernist houses without the hassle of driving! Featuring the work of architects and designers Harwell Hamilton Harris, Matt Griffith + Erin Sterling Lewis, Lyn McClay, Sarah Howell, Robby Johnston, Craig Kerins + Robby Johnson, Bob Anderson, and Dustin Ehrlich.
The 2017 Bratton House, Hillsborough, designed by Sarah Howell.  The 2017 Swain Street House, Raleigh, designed by Matthew Griffith and Erin Sterling Lewis.  Casa Mariposa, 127 Glendale Drive, Chapel Hill,designed by Lyn McClay  The 2017 Helms/Carroll House, Raleigh, designed by Craig Kerins and Robby Johnston  The 2017 Parks House, Raleigh, designed by Craig Kerins and Robby Johnston
 The 2017 Anderson House, Raleigh, designed and built by Bob Anderson.
The 2007 Ehrlich House, designed by Dustin Ehrlich.  Plus, a special guided tour/talk at NC State's DH Hill Library on the photography of Gordon Schenck, a celebrated North Carolina photographer known for his shots of Modernist houses. 52 people attended.
March
2018
Thirst4Architecture Beyond Blue, Raleigh
February 2018 Modernism Week Palm Springs CA  Hotel Lautner  Sunnylands  Our home base for the week 32 architectural adventurers toured, watched, partied, and loved our annual week in Palm Springs for all-you-can-eat mid-century Modernist houses. USModernist Radio recorded 18 interviews poolside. George Smart of NCModernist was a keynote speaker at Modernism Week.  The famous photo at the Kaufmann House, with Nelda Linsk and Helen Dzo Dzo.  Our recreated photo, with Rebekah Laney and Angela Roehl at the real Kaufmann house  Rebekah Laney with the real Nelda Linsk, at a fake Kaufmann House  George Smart and Steve Reiss  Angela Roehl, William Kopelk, and Iva Kravitz  With Nelda Linsk of "Poolside Gossip" fame  At Sunnylands February 2018 Raleigh NCModernist Project Bauhow sponsored the Wake County Public Schools Design Blitz at Red Hat. We provided free laptops to the winners of the design charette, plus lunch for the entire conference.
February 2018
February 2018
Over 200 people attended.
February 2018
January 2018
Elijah Leed Studio, 812 North Mangum Street, Durham. 45 people attended.
January 2018
NCModernist Architecture Movie Edge of the Possible: Special Edition Jim Hunt Library  125 people attended. Producer Daryl Dellora joined us by Skype for Q&A. |
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