Where Cantilever Meets Coyote
May 25, 2013 |
Explosive growth of Phoenix in the postwar era made the desert of Arizona a fertile palette for experimentation by some of the nation’s greatest modern architects including the giant of them all, Frank Lloyd Wright.
This lavishly illustrated talk focuses on custom and vernacular modern design created by five architects who relocated to Arizona and called it home in the postwar era. Vintage imagery, legends and design philosophies of Al Beadle, Blaine Drake, AIA, Ralph Haver, AIA, Paolo Soleri and Fred Guirey, FAIA, will be discussed. An overview of current challenges and triumphs in midcentury preservation will paint a vivid picture of the state of modern design in Arizona. An update on the controversial state of Frank Lloyd Wright’s David Wright home will also be shared.
Alison King, associate professor at the Art Institute of Phoenix, is founder of the Modern Phoenix Neighborhood Network at the award-winning website modernphoenix.net. She has researched, written, and documented Arizona’s modern culture on the web since 2003. Research by Alison and her collaborators is presented at Modern Phoenix Week each April. She was honored by the Central Arizona AIA for her contributions to interpreting design history, and in 2011 published the authorized biography Ralph Burgess Haver: Everyman’s Modernism.
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modernphoenix.net |
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Burton Barr Central Library |
1221 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ |
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alison@modernphoenix.net |
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