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Pure-blood architecture June 2nd

May 7, 2013 – 11:19 pm

Regulars on the Lawrence Modern house tour scene, architect Dick Peters and his wife, Carol, have for years endured our pleas that they open their own mid-century home for viewing. We are pleased to announce that they have finally relented. Designed by Dick himself in 1968, the Peters Residence is the quintessential suburban rancher, or […]

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100 years of architecture at KU

April 30, 2013 – 12:11 am

KU’s School of Architecture celebrated a century of architectural education April 26-27, 2013, filling the corridors of Marvin Hall with former students who reconnected with classmates and reminisced with faculty about their experiences attending one of the oldest and most prestigious architecture schools in the country. More than 350 alumni, faculty and friends attended the […]

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Where KU faculty retire

February 2, 2013 – 6:09 pm

Lawrence possesses a large number of modern university apartments and dormitories built large and small across the campus of the University of Kansas during the 1950s and early 1960s. One of the smallest but, in some ways, most ambitious of this housing type is Sprague Apartments, designed by Kansas architect Charles L. Marshall (1905-1992) and […]

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Lawrence Modern floods Bowersock!

January 27, 2013 – 8:54 pm

Thanks to all who attended Saturday’s Bowersock Powerhouse tour. Our most successful event ever! Special thanks to owner/operator Sarah Hill-Nelson and architect Dan Sabatini for adding one more reason why Lawrence is a special place to live. Now, if it would only start to rain …

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Hold back the water Jan. 26th

January 1, 2013 – 8:05 pm
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