Fun and educational seminars were held at a variety of venues throughout the week. Most events were free.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Summer Hill of Design Within Reach greeted hometour homeowners Ponciano Montoya and Delene Patterson of Celadon Group. DWR hosted two events for Modern Phoenix Week, and Ponci and Delene presented later in the season.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Marshall Shore brought his Phoenix Retro Spectacular talk to the East Valley, plus a great vintage film about Valley legend Del Webb and the history of Sun City.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Creative Connect founder Dan Semenchuk talked about the ripe potential of Sunnyslope with Modern Phoenix Founder Alison King.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Keynote speaker Reed Kroloff of Cranbrook Academy gave an impassioned and dynamic overview of the Arizona School of architecture.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

"Do you really think he cares about YOU?"

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Will Bruder was honored by Kroloff to have his work included among legends in the Arizona School talk.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Midcentury bank expert Dr. Donna Reiner shared the results of her thesis research on the Valley's ample stock of amazingly designed financial institutions.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Architect Ned Sawyer gave an overview of his early start working for Al Beadle in the 60s, then development into his own as a modernist.


Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Carolyn Robbins, Curation of Educational Programs at The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art introduced each guest. This is SMoCA's fourth year of partnership in support of our annual event.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Alison King gave an overview's of the Ralph Haver and Jimmie Nonn partnership, and built her case for Haver's involvement in the Circle K convenience store prototype.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

John Jacquemart, historian, shared the secrets to good research with Cornelia Stumpf, who attended his seminar to puzzle out the history of her award-winning ranch remodel.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

This was the largest attendance ever for the research seminar, which was very hands-on with more primary source publications and assets than ever before.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Anyone can pick John Jacquemart's brain at the Historic Preservation office desk in downtown Phoenix. But once a year, we bring his expertise straight to you!

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

The Modern Phoenix archival binders of vintage magazines are now tabbed with keywords, making finding work by architect a little easier.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Being able to go through the research process together as a group makes it a lot easier than on your own.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Taz Loomans, architectural blogger and writer for Modern Phoenix, found John's vintage copy of the Phoenix City Directory.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Next year, come armed with your background inforrmation and make use of the Modern Phoenix archives!

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Heidi and Doug Abrahamson of Phoenix Metro Retro came out to DWR for Michael P. Johnson's talk on the work of Al Beadle.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Nancy Beadle and Suzanne Johnson of Gnosis, Ltd. signed copies of Constructions, the only book about the architectural work of Al Beadle.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Nancy Beadle attended all the events in honor of her husband's work during Modern Phoenix Week.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Charle Hollis Jones, respected Lucite furniture designer, traveled from Palm Springs for Johnson's talk.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Gabe Holland of Design Within Reach introduced Michael's talk on Al Beadle.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Michael P. Johnson, Professor at Taliesin West School of Architecture and advocate of Beadle's work spoke about his friend's body of work.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Several of Johnson's students from Taliesin attended.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

Architect W. Brent Armstrong and writer Peter Wolf, longtime supporters of Modern Phoenix events.

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

The talks were packed! Much thanks to DWR for the generous use of their showroom for our events to kick off Modern Phoenix Week!

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

 

Modern Phoenix Seminars and Events 2010

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