FEBRUARY 16 - 26, 2012 View All Events

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Modernism Week is an exciting 11-day celebration of mid-century modern design, architecture, and culture in Palm Springs, California. This design aesthetic originated in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, and was typified by clean, simple lines which came to define desert modernism.

Modernism Week is filled with a variety of events including architectural tours, films, lectures, an architectural symposium, educational events, and chic, fun parties in cool mid-century modern homes and boutique hotels.

Thursday
2|16
Sunnylands Tour

9 AM - 3:15 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
Illuminated Modern

4 - 6 PM
Sunnylands Golf: Playing through the Years.

5:30 - 7:30 PM
Cocktail Reception: Elrod House

7 - 10 PM
Saturday
2|18
Sunnylands Tour

9 AM - 3:15 PM
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
Charles Phoenix Retro Slide Show: Pools, Patios, and BBQs

10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Modernism Show

10 AM - 6 PM
Sunmor Home Tour

10 AM - 2 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
Iconic Open House: Ship of the Desert

Noon - 2 PM
Lecture:
Alexander Girard

2:30 PM
Park Imperial South Home Tour & Reception

3 - 5 PM, 5 - 6:30 PM
Live, Love & Decorate
Presentation by Martyn Lawrence Bullard

4 - 5 PM, 5 - 6:30 PM
PS ModCom Annual Gala Benefit

8 - 11 PM
Tuesday
2|21
Frey House II Tours +
Cocktail Reception

8:30 AM - 5 PM
Sunnylands Tour

9 AM - 3:15 PM
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
PSPF Stephens House Tour

10 AM - 1 PM
Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
McCallum Adobe Free Day

10 AM - 4 PM
Book Signing: Palm Springs Then & Now

10 AM - 4 PM
Edward Durell Stone: American Modernist

10:30 AM - 11:30 PM
Film: Visual Acoustics

12 PM
Lecture + Lunch:
Paul R. Williams:
by Leslie Luebbers

Noon - 2 PM
Lecture: Albert Frey
by Bill Butler

2 PM
Preserving Eichler Houses: by Alan Hess

2:30 PM
Film: Milton Glaser

4:30 PM
Cocktail Party:
Hideaway Hotel

5 -7 PM
Film: How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

7 PM
Friday
2|24
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
Loewy Open House and Avanti Display

10 AM - 12 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
The White City:
Tel Aviv and the Bauhaus

Noon - 2 PM
PSPF Retro Martini Party

5 - 8 PM
Mid-Century Mermaids: A History

7 - 10 PM
Friday
2|17
Sunnylands Tour

9 AM - 3:15 PM
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
Star Dedication: William Cody

2 PM
Modernism Show Preview Reception

6 - 9 PM
Renegade Art Gallery: An Evening of Art, Music and Drink!

8 - Midnight
Sunday
2|19
Sunnylands Tour

9 AM - 3:15 PM
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
Lecture:
California Design: 1930-1965

10:30 AM
Modernism Show

10 AM - 5 PM
Film + Lunch: Desert Utopia

12 PM
Iconic Open House: Edris House

12 - 2 PM
Iconic Open House: Palevsky Residence

12 - 2 PM
Interior Design Home Tour

1 - 5 PM
Film: Bird's Nest: Herzog and de Meuron in China

4:30 PM
Film: EAMES: The Architect and the Painter

7:00 PM
Wednesday
2|22
Frey House II Tours +
Cocktail Reception

8:30 AM - 5 PM
PSPF Architecture Lecture

8:30 - 10:30 AM
Sunnylands Tour

9 AM - 3:15 PM
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
COLOR + MODERNISM: Lecture by Paul Aferiat and Peter Stamberg, architects

10:30 AM
Film + Lunch: Journeyman Architect

12 PM
Lecture: Albert Frey
by Bill Butler

2 PM
Midwest Modern: Architecture in Columbus, Indiana:
by Bradley Brooks

2:30 PM
Film: John Portman

4:30 PM
Cocktail Party:
Desert Star Hotel

5 - 7 PM
Film: Modern Tide

7 PM
Saturday
2|25
Symposium, Conserving Modernism: Celebrating Sunnylands and A. Quincy Jones

Symposium + Lunch: 8:30 AM - 3 PM
Symposium, Lunch, Tour & Reception: 8:30 AM - 5 PM
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
El Rancho Vista Estates House Tours

10 AM-1 PM
Interior Guided Tours of the Vintage Airstreams & Trailers

10 AM - 3 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
Shake Your Groove Thang Party

8-11 PM
Hospitality Sponsors
Monday
2|20
Frey House II Tours +
Cocktail Reception

8:30 AM - 5 PM
Cocktail reception after last tour.
Sunnylands Tour

9 AM - 3:15 PM
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
Iconic Home tour

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Modernism Show

10 AM - 4 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
Cartopia: Mid-Century Concept Cars
by Jim Cherry

10:30 AM
Film + Lunch: William Krisel

12 PM
Vintage Car Show

12 - 4 PM
Modern Garden Tour

2 - 5 PM
William Haines: A Legacy of Taste & Style, the Sunnylands Years

2:30 PM
Film: Urbanized

4:30 PM
Cocktail Party:
Horizon Hotel

5 - 7 PM
Film: Unfinished Spaces (Havana, Cuba)

7 PM
An Evening With Bob Anderson

8 PM
Thursday
2|23
Sunnylands Tour

9 AM - 3:15 PM
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM
PSPF Sinatra House Tour
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10 AM - 2 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
Lecture + Lunch
Driftwood Manifestos: Modern Cape Cod

11:30 AM - 1 PM
A Specific Modernism For The 21st Century
Patrick Tighe, AIA

2:30 PM
Sunday
2|26
Double Decker Bus Architectural Tour

9 AM and 1 PM
Interior Guided Tours of Vintage Airstreams & Trailers

9 AM - 1 PM
Walking Tour: Modernism in Banking

10 AM - 11 AM
The New Moderns Home Tour and VIP Reception

1 - 6 PM
A special thanks to our partners and sponsors who make Modernism Week possible.
Presenting Sponsor:

City of Palm Springs
Special Diamond Sponsor:

SunnylandsVacation Palm Springs
Diamond Sponsor:

Spencers

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