Session 9: Modernist Residential Experiment: Three Case Studies of Regional Innovators

Paul Rudolph Hall and Loria Center for the History of Art

Speakers

Robert Meckfessel, FAIA

Susan Singh

John R. Van Ness

Glenn Mallory

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Modernist Residential Experiment: Three Case Studies of Regional Innovators


This session will explore several influential regional architectural practices and some of their most pioneering residential projects. Reflecting local environments and changing needs in living, these practitioners created new residential developments ranging from single family homes to multi-family townhome complexes to entire self-governing communities. These projects provided solutions to postwar issues facing cities, most notably rapid suburbanization in Chicago, Dallas, and Albuquerque.

Speakers & Abstracts:
  • Postwar Modern Townhomes: Early Chicago Work of Homer Rissman (1949-1953)
    Susan Singh, Architecture, PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin
  • La Luz del Oeste: A Modernist Residential Experiment in the Southwest 
    John R. Van Ness, PhD, La Luz del Osete Foundation and Glenn Mallory, Illumination Natural
  • Three Texas Architects - A story of Vernacular Modernism 
    Robert Meckfessel, FAIA, President, DSGN Associates / President, Docomomo US
Moderator:
  • Frampton Tolbert, Executive Director, Historic Districts Council; founder of Queens Modern
Location:

Paul Rudolph Hall and Loria Center for the History of Art

Speakers