LINKS + ARTICLES ABOUT MODERNISM IN PHOENIX
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- Article about the Buena Terror on AZCentral
- Video of the Buena Terror in Marion Estates by Allan Gruber.
- Video of The Admiral Holcomb House by Blaine Drake AIA, filmed by Fox 10.
- Where Cantilever Meets Coyote: Postwar Architects in Post-Wright Arizona -- scroll to last article for a primer on some of the architects to come after Wright
- Midcentury Ephemera about Tucson's modern homes
- A. Quincy Jones and Pueblo Gardens: The First Modern Tract (in Tucson)
- Modern Architecture Preservation Project of Tucson
- Sands West: Hawaiian Living in Phoenix, Arizona
- Creating a New Image: Modern Branch Banks in Arizona PDF in Recent Past Preservation Network Bulletin by Donna Reiner, PhD
- Simple, Contemporary Lines Perfectly Suit Couple in the AZ Republic
- Remodels turn 3 foreclosure homes into gems in the AZ Republic
- Cool House in Paradise Gardens on Fox News
- Is Paradise Gardens a Genuine Beadle Design or Just Suffering From Beadle Mania? in The New Times
- Promoting Our Paradise: The Modern Phoenix Home Tour on Downtown Phoenix Journal
- The Sandra Day O'Connor House in Papago Park by D. K. Taylor
- Chris-town Mall Revisited, featuring tons of vintage images from the mall's heyday
- WesTown Shopping Center, featuring tons of vintage images from the mall's heyday
- Rediscovering the Midcentury Modern Look -- an AZ Central article that interviews several of our members
- Roadside
Peek Arizona has classic midcentury roadside architecture
and signage
- History of Van Buren Street, including lots on the modern era and its motels
- A proper obituary for John F. Long, the man who built up Modern Phoenix
- Midcentury Marvels: Modern Architecture in Phoenix [PDF]
- Video tour of The Young Residence by Woolsey Studio in Sunnysope.
- Desert Shelters by students at FLW's Taliesin West
- Modern Architecture in Phoenix Photos by Travel Photo Base
- Cool house, Warm Look, a Sunset article featuing a home in Marlen Grove
- A Modernist Update in Marlen Grove featuring Jim Koehler and Roberta Clay in the AZ Republic
- Walt Lockley's radio piece on the preservation of the 44th and Camelback "Mushroom" Valley National Bank
- Valley's Midcentury Modern properties draw a following
- Haute Houses, A Phoenix New Times report on the state of contemporary architecture in Phoenix by Robrt Pela
- Article about development of Melrose on 7
- Desert Living Magazine is now browsable online again!
- The Farling Residence in Tempe
- Xeros in Sunnyslope
- Scottsdale's Garden Apartments May go Historic
- Desert Lifestlyes TV
- Living with the desert: smart design in Arizona's homes and gardens at Sunset Magazine
- Hotel Valley Ho
- Homes with a History and all about Phoenix architect Harold Ekman
- Exploding Downtown, a special issue of the New Times (2003 - old but still relevant)
- 944 Magazine articles about Phoenix
- Contact Magazine
- 100 Degrees of Design Design registry sponsored by Desert Living
- Facades and gates of Ralph Haver's Rancho Ventura by Hector Acuna
- Landscape Architects in Phoenix, Arizona
- The
LaBar family's restored
Haver in Windemere - Before and After
- A
Factual and Fictional History
of the Financial Center in Mesa, by Tim Boyle
- Everyday
Modernism in Phoenix by ASU's Dan Hoffman
- Authenti-city by
Nan Elllin
- The
REAL Midcentury by Sandy McLendon at Jetset Modern
- Phoenix
Got Googie A few snapshots
- The
Abandoned Phoenix
Trotting Park at lostamerica.com
- DWR's
feature on Phoenix's growing Modern scene
- The
Desert Speaks offers landscaping solutions for several
climates in Arizona
- Retro-cool
Trendsetter Good Role for Scottsdale
- Roadside
Peek's Arizona
Gallery of neon and roadside signage
- History
of Yesco The
Young Electric Sign Company responsible for much midcentury
neon signage in Arizona
- American
Eyesores
- Retro
Valley Homes Taking US Spotlight
- Three
Architects' Approach to the Arizona Desert including
Judith Chafee and Wil Bruder.
- Saving
At-Risk Architecture: Local modernism gets the
spotlight during Architecture Week in Tucson
- Cinema
Treasures celebrates
the Cine-Capri
- San Diego Developer can't
afford to renovate the Western Bell building, plans to
'doze it
phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/
2005/01/17/story1.html
- Kon
Tiki Hotel doomed for demolition?
[an old New Times
article about Ralph Haver]
- Serbin
Studio's Article on Haver's Marlen Grove
- DWR Salutes Paolo Soleri
Article and Photos
- A
resident's eye view of Arcosanti
- ASU's
Collection of Contemporary Architects Working in the
Valley
- Postwar
Commercial Architecture in Phoenix
- Cosanti
and Arcosanti by Paolo Soleri
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