Everybody can learn from the decision to demolish a classic modern building designed by Donald Wexler at Palm Springs High School — and the ill-fated effort to save it.
Modernism Goes Mobile
New app points you to architectural marvels.
A new app for your smart phone or tablet computer points you to architectural marvels throughout Palm Springs.
Meet the Moderns
Fascinated by the area’s midcentury modern architecture, photographer James Schnepf set out to meet people who live in the past
Fascinated by the area’s midcentury modern architecture, photographer James Schnepf set out to meet people who live in the past.
Plan For 2013 Palm Springs Modernism Weekend
Editor's Hot Picks
Plans are in the works for the 2013 Modernism Weekend.
Mod About Town: Frey and Loewy
An exploration of desert midcentury architecture and design.
Robert Imber discusses the Palm Springs architecture of Albert Frey, and Raymond Loewy.
The Lost Krisel
After a neighbor’s sharp eye pegs a south Palm Desert house as a design by William Krisel, the architect recalls drawing the plans for the property, which is on the market again.
For years, Jim West and his wife, Karen Prinzmetal, strolled by the midcentury modern home on Fiddleneck Lane in Palm Desert and pondered its origins. It was certainly in fine company with an Albert Frey around the corner, a few Walter Whites nearby, and the historic Firestone estate in the vicinity. But the Fiddleneck residence always provoked the same question:
Déjà New
Hipsters, Hollywood types, and architecture buffs are checking into the only hotel designed by John Lautner — in Desert Hot Springs.
Most people don’t realize they’re familiar with the architecture of John Lautner. If you’ve seen Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Lethal Weapon 2, or Charlie’s Angels, you’ve seen a piece of Lautner architecture.
CAMEO – What Defines a Modern Man, Jacques Caussin?
Jacques Caussin was living in Detroit when he brought a modernism show to Palm Springs in 2001.
Architecture & Design — Modern Man
Words with Architectural Preservationist Robert Imber
Palm Springs Life interviews Robert Imber, a tireless advocate for architectural preservation for more than 25 years.
John Lautner’s Windsong
A couple discovers an architecturally significant house above the San Gorgonio Pass and saves it from its surroundings
Beaumont police Chief Pat Smith and his wife, Glo, exhausted the real estate listings in Beaumont, Oak Glen, and Cherry Valley when they decided to check out “that other mountain”: The Highway 243 side of the San Gorgonio Pass, rarely traveled except by those en route to Idyllwild.