A recent interesting article by John Dorman in the New York Times explores Saarinen's Michigan roots. Another NYT article, by Steven Kurutz, explains the lasting allure of MCM....
Sold Out Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m. When: Saturday, September 9th, 2017 Cost: $30/person, registration required Detroit’s Mies van der Rohe Historic District in Lafayette Park includes 186 cooperatively owned Town House and Court House units, three apartment towers, an elementary school, a retail district, and a 13-acre park known as...
On Thursday, August 17, at 6:30 P. M., Grace Shackman will lead a walking tour of Highland Road and Regent Drive. The lots on both streets were sold with the caveat that the homes be architect-designed. Architects represented include George Brigham, David Osler, Robert Metcalf,...
If you can grab a copy of the June edition of the Ann Arbor Observer, flip to page 47 and read Grace's article entitled "Midcentury Mail". Learn how Kelly MacArthur is using her graphic design skills to create unique mailboxes for midcentury modern homes in...
There will be an open house on Sunday, June 11th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at 3087 Overridge Road in Ann Arbor Hills. Tickets can be purchase here. This beautiful home was designed by Edward Olencki in 1962 for the Engels and purchased by the...
The longtime home of architect Robert C. Metcalf at 1052 Arlington, in Arbor Hills, is now for sale. According to Gregory Saldana, Curator for a University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture Exhibit in 2010 that that celebrated Metcalf’s work: [caption id="attachment_22768" align="alignright" width="203"] Bob Metcalf building...
Author: Jeffrey Welch Here at the Bentley Wall in UMMA, one may pass an agreeable hour perusing photographs, drawings and collectibles related to two of the finest and most familiar buildings on the Michigan campus. Find Level 3 in the new wing of the museum to...
We are extremely delighted to welcome and host Brian Conway, the State of Michigan Historic Preservation Officer, to talk about and sign copies of Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America, the beautiful book that he and his colleague Amy Arnold have edited. Our reviewer has...
In every way, this copiously illustrated book pleases and informs. Its editors have understood the mission, perfectly, to make a case for Michigan Modernism, not as a derivative response to ideas imported from elsewhere but as an original expression that "grew from the state's indigenous...
