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Oct 31, 2022

Ever since Modernism started, most banks have been, let's say this delicately, a huge PITA. Getting reasonable appraisals for mortgages, insurance claims, property taxes, and determining sales price is difficult, especially post-2008 when all the appraisal rules tightened up.  That’s where you need an expert,...


Oct 24, 2022

Schindler is a name most everyone knows, for different reasons – and for different Schindlers.  There’s Schindler the elevator and escalator company, founded in 1874.  There’s German industrialist Oscar Schindler, hero of the 1993 movie Schindler's List, who saved more than a thousand refugees from the Nazis. ...


Oct 19, 2022

Join USModernist and USModernist Radio at the Sheats-Goldstein house for a cocktail party November 12, and the next day at the the Stahl House for a Champagne tour. It's a rare chance to see inside these iconic Modernist houses!

Details at www.usmodernist.org/la.

 

 


Oct 17, 2022

In this our last show from Modernism Week 2022, we close out with fascinating poolside conversations with speakers from the week!

Aaron Betsky is a household name, if your house is full of architects.  He’s a critic, curator, educator, and lecturer who is Director of the Virginia Tech School of Architecture...


Oct 10, 2022

Edward Killingsworth graduated from USC in 1940 and was the most prolific creator of Case Study Houses – a project sponsored by Arts and Architecture Magazine to provide affordable housing for returning WWII soldiers and their families.  These architects included Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig,...