Author Archives: Lawrence Modern

Studio 804 Shines at 519 Indiana

September 2, 2022 – 1:38 pm

Lawrence Modern has long maintained an interest in the work of distinguished professor Dan Rockhill’s Studio 804, the KU School of Architecture’s hands-on design/build master class. Each spring we look forward to seeing what his tech-savvy students have concocted using the latest building technologies, usually from the always innovating Germans and Swedes. And while midcentury […]

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Painting this old (midcentury) house

July 4, 2022 – 12:59 am

Like death and taxes, painting your house is another one of those things in life that eventually comes calling. According to the Internet, most homeowners can expect to repaint their house every 10 to 15 years, depending on the type of siding they have and other factors. This sounds a lot like the advice you […]

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A constructivist appreciation

May 12, 2022 – 1:01 am

On May 1st, Lawrence Modern gathered for its first event in nearly three years at the former Zimmerman Steel building in east Lawrence. A veritable Sunday buffet of architecture cogniscenti were guest speakers, including the Lawrence Preservation Alliance’s Dennis Brown, architect Stan Hernly, our own Tom Harper and Dennis Domer, as well as the principals […]

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Zig Zag love May 1st

April 7, 2022 – 8:36 pm

For our first event in more than two years, we are excited to offer fans of midcentury modern industrial style buildings—count us among them—the opportunity to tour one of the most noteworthy examples in Lawrence, the Zimmerman Steel building. Built in 1959 (an office designed by the local architecture firm of Robertson & Ericson was added […]

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Modern meets the levee on May 11

April 23, 2019 – 11:27 pm

The fusion of vernacular and modern is not unique to Lawrence but so many interesting examples abound here—Dan Rockhill’s contemporary prairie designs come to mind—that they have become a kind of regional architectural dialect. Nowhere is this more evident than in North Lawrence, where cues from the surrounding landscape and architecture—broad, flat floodplain with grain elevators […]

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