Esoteric Survey

Tucson Modernism Week is happening November 4th - 9th. The list of events looks amazing. This year’s home tour has six residences and two exclusive bonus stops, Architects and designers include Judith Chafee, Bruce Goff, William Wilde, Charles Clement, Ralph Haver, and Russ Symes.  I've been wanting to see inside the Goff Barby House house forever. I wonder if it still looks like this?? The carpet is wild. In addition to the home tour, the are a number of lectures and exhibitions. To celebrate the acquisition of the Bondante House by the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, there will be a special exhibit on Charles Clement at the house, which he designed. The house joins the  Ball-Paylore house (1952) by Arthur T Brown as part of their collection.  Charles Clement maquette More about Tucson Modernism, here . In addition to all of that, Tucson is just awesome. Make sure to go see A Z Modern , Saturday Generation  and Holt Modern when you're in town.  Check...

Also on the  Tucson Modernism Week  architecture tour was the Ball-Paylore house (1952) by Arthur T Brown. The Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation recently purchased the house and it is such a great original example of Brown's architecture. It has only had two owners in its history. Two Librarians, Phyllis Ball and Patricia Paylore were the original clients. In 1990, Phyllis and Henry Koffler bought the house. Henry was the president of the University of Arizona and it was used as a guest house to host visiting scholars. Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation purchased the house and will be restoring it. At just over 1200 square feet, the house was in danger of redevelopment.  The hexagonal structure utilizes moveable sun shade as a form of passive solar technology. Source: Maynard Parker via The Huntington The aluminum lounge in the back can be seen in the black and white photo above. Yes, the backs are on upside d...