The inaugural George Matsumoto Prize begins accepting entries May 15 By Shelley D. Hutchins Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) starts accepting entries today, May 15, for its new residential design awards competition. Named after one of the founding professors at North Carolina State University’s architecture school, the George Matsumoto Prize is open to architects and designers [...]
Residential Architect magazine: World Monuments Fund Focuses on Saving Modernist Masterpieces
A traveling exhibition about saving Modernist architectural landmarks stops at the AIA NC headquarters this June. By Shelley D. Hutchins, May 2, 2012 Modernism at Risk: Modern Solutions for Saving Modern Landmarks is an exhibition organized by the World Monuments Fund (WMF) to help bring awareness to the Modernist architectural landmarks that are at risk [...]
Durham Magazine blog: “Smart Move”
We were pleased to read on Sunday that George Smart, whose cool modern home we featured in our June issue, received one of Preservation Durham‘s first Advocacy Awards. George was honored for founding the Triangle Modernist Houses website, a comprehensive catalog of the best examples of the spare, sleek architectural style to be found in [...]
NC’s Pioneering Black Architects Get National Attention
Recent Past Preservation Network features notable North Carolina heroes. May 4, 2011 – The Recent Past Preservation Network (RPPN), a national organization preserving historic buildings and sites from the last 50 years, featured Triangle Modernist Houses.com’s recent series on early NC black architects. The feature covers a five-page spread in the Spring 2011 edition online [...]
Triangle Modernist Houses Makes Docomomo-US Newsletter
February 22, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), the award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to archiving, preserving and promoting modernist residential design, is featured in the “Advocacy Spotlight” for the month of February in the Docomomo-US Newsletter. Dcocomomo is an acronym for the DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the MOdern [...]
Charlotte Observer: “Raleigh architects coming to Charlotte for modernist tour”
Oct. 29, 2010 By Allen Norwood Believe it or not, a busload of architecture lovers from Raleigh are headed to Charlotte in early December. The group, called Triangle Modernist Houses, has an unabashed affection for midcentury modern houses, the contemporary houses of the 1950s and ’60s. CLICK HERE TO READ THE [...]
A Different Kind of Love Triangle
April 29, 2010 (DURHAM, NC) – Recent Past Preservation Network (RPPN), the national non-profit organization that promotes the preservation of modern architecture, has published an eight-page feature called “Love Triangle” in the April RPPN Bulletin, their online magazine. But in this version, there’s no steamy sex. Tiger Woods, Sandra Bullock, nor any other celebrities were [...]
Association for Women in Architecture, March Newsletter
Pages 6-7 Copy and paste this link on your browser to view the article and the entire AWA Newsletter: http://www.awa-la.org/content/2010MAR.pdf
Residential Architect Magazine: North Carolina’s Early Designing Women Rediscovered
by Stephani L. Miller While George Smart, founder and executive director of the modernist design archive, Triangle Modernist Houses, researched the work of North Carolina architect Elizabeth “Lib” Bobbitt Lee, he found himself wondering: Where were all the other pre-1970s women architects? Lee stood out as the first female graduate of the North Carolina State [...]
Durham Herald Sun: Female Architects Break Gender Mold
by Monica Chen DURHAM — When Jean Middleton was a draftswoman for an architectural firm in the 1960s, she was the only woman there who was not a secretary. “When someone would come into the drafts room, they would immediately turn to me and ask, ‘Jean, would you ask so-and-so to make a cup of [...]
