Author Archives: Lawrence Modern

Get back to nature July 29th

July 1, 2012 – 10:32 am

Sure to be the coolest Lawrence Modern event this summer, our next gathering will be at a leafy modernist retreat west of campus owned by John and Muff Kelly. Architect Keith Herrin, a former KU Architecture grad, will be on hand to talk about the design of the house, which was originally built in 1965 […]

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KCModern to host Goff extravaganza June 8-10

May 27, 2012 – 2:21 am

The precious few times I’ve had the privilege to visit Bruce Goff-designed houses, I’ve always left feeling enthralled by the experience and reminded that the world is far more mysterious and wonderful than I had imagined. So it is with great delight that we relay the news that our friends at KCModern have organized an ambitious, […]

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Big turnout at mod/Victorian event

April 16, 2012 – 2:01 am

More than 90 people turned out for our modern/Victorian get-together with the Lawrence Preservation Alliance. We toured architect Scott Trettle’s 2009 modern creation at 618 Walnut St. and walked across the street to view a Queen Anne-style Victorian home built in the 1870s owned by David Baird. As LPA board member Virgil Dean noted, the […]

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When Space Homes landed in Lawrence …

February 6, 2012 – 6:33 am

Los Angeles and San Francisco have their Eichler homes, Kansas City has its Drummonds, and thanks to a little-known builder named John “Church” Sargent, Lawrence, too, has its modern subdivisions. Take a drive down Ousdahl Rd. between 19th and 21st and south of 9th St. on Madeline and Murrow Ct., and you can’t miss them. […]

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KU’s Center for Design Research: A Review

December 4, 2011 – 3:35 am

Lawrence Modern exclusive! Designed and built by student architects in Dan Rockhill’s Studio 804 program, the new Center for Design Research not only pushes green technology to new heights but also stands on its own as a masterful work of modernism. Hear what KU architecture professor Dennis Domer has to say about this great new […]

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