Hugh Kaptur says that architects should follow the wishes of their clients. However, he’s willing to bend that rule once in a while.

Chris Pardo came to Palm Springs looking for a vacation home and has since made it his workplace. Not the home, but Palm Springs — and several other cities in the area.

While architect Jim Jennings acknowledges the tenet of midcentury modern design to bring the outdoors in, he says turning that concept inside out was his mandate for the Palm Springs home he named Desert One.

When Dimitri James and Jack Woods’ newly renovated home was unveiled on the Palm Springs Modernism Tour last year, more than a few visitors remarked, “This is a modern home I could live in.”

It’d be easier to lasso the wind than to find words for Jay and Bev Doolittle’s house in Joshua Tree.

Even if you were late in line to Modernism Week’s guided bus tour, you don’t have to miss out. Hit the road with our guide.

Goldenvoice will co-produce Modernism Week 2014, an annual celebration of mid-century modern design, architecture, art, fashion and culture set for Feb. 13-23, in Palm Springs.

Desert Modernism describes the genre of architecture and design of the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s.

Clean, simple, modern. Those are the characteristics which continue to attract owners to famed architect Don Wexler’s steel homes in north Palm Springs.

With the help of other local designers, Palm Springs’ Christopher Kennedy has created his own compound that will be open to tours during Modernism Week in February.