Hope Springs Resort is also an enclave of great architecture: large overhangs, zigzag roof lines, and a sunken conversation pit in the lobby in Desert Hot Springs.
Preserving a Legacy
Palm Springs Preservation Foundation celebrates architectural designer Herbert W. Burns with launch of tribute journal.
Herbert W. Burns’ 1955 Village Manor Inn was reinvented in 2001 as the Orbit In, starting an architectural preservation revolution in Palm Springs.
Frey’s Full Circle
The 1931 Aluminaire House will take its rightful place among a legend’s many Palm Springs gems.
Fans of Albert Frey are ecstatic in the desert community about the pending move of Aluminaire House permanently to Palm Springs, where it will complete the arc of the architect’s work.
Team Building
The partnership of Albert Frey and John Porter Clark created a modern building that 70 years later still carries itself well.
An example of Palm Springs architecture designed more than 70 years ago by John Porter Clark and Albert Frey is hidden as a smart contemporary office building.
Dynamic Duo
Forgotten architectural gems receive TLC from Thomboy Properties.
Jackie Thomas and DeeAnn McCoy, the duo behind Thomboy Properties, are stirring up the home renovation landscape in Palm Springs.
From Gut to Glam
Once in foreclosure, this 1956 midcentury home in Palm Springs has undergone a dramatic transformation.
Where others saw dollar signs as soon as they walked into this modest-size midcentury home in Palm Springs, Bulldog Investment and Development saw opportunity for reinvention.
Free, Low-Cost Ways to Experience Modernism Week 2018
Get your Mod fix on a budget.
Modernism Week features a wide range of programming across the Coachella Valley and many of the events are free or priced under $45.
Architecture on the Big Screen
Long-anticipated films on Albert Frey and Frank Sinatra among Palm Springs world premieres.
The inaugural Architecture and Design Film Series will present a lineup of architecture and design-centric films during Modernism Week in Palm Springs.
A Slice of Midcentury
In its return to Modernism Week, the Tahquitz River Estates Tour focuses on early Trousdale section.
The Tahquitz River Estates Neighborhood Organization rejoins Modernism Week with a new look at a 1947 development spurred by Los Angeles developer Paul W. Trousdale.
Our Town
Celebrated photographer Tim Street-Porter documents both the familiar and the underappreciated in a new book, Palm Springs: A Modernist Paradise.
Celebrated photographer Tim Street-Porter documents both the familiar and the underappreciated in a new book, Palm Springs: A Modernist Paradise.
