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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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‘Shadow figures’ who shaped modern architecture

August 17, 2011 – 11:36 pm

During the early post-World War II period, Lawrence might have seemed far from the centers of innovative modern architecture — Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Philadelphia. In fact, Lawrence was very connected intellectually to these cities and the towering geniuses of modernism—Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius, among […]

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Bruce Goff’s Bavinger House feared lost

June 30, 2011 – 6:05 pm

Lawrence Modern is by nature a provincial enterprise but we do patrol the architecture news front. And we have some sad news to report. We recently learned that architect Bruce Goff’s Bavinger House, located in Norman, Oklahoma, was severely damaged in June and is feared to be lost. Although it is still unclear what exactly […]

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