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Hudson Modern - A New Hudson River School of Architectural Design

Author David Sokol reveals design-forward houses in the Hudson River Valley that embrace the dramatic landscape settings, design vernacular and traditions of this historic region near New York City.

$12 (1 hr)

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As the birthplace of American landscape painting, the Hudson River Valley has long been a refuge from the city and a laboratory for new aesthetic expression. Today, thanks to its ascendant reputation as a weekend utopia, architects are extending that tradition into the built environment. Designing residences that revere local climate, landscape, and history in a distinctly modernist language, these talents are sowing a new Hudson River school of architectural thought.
 
Author David Sokol examines this emerging domestic architecture, featuring houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the edge of habitation and nature. KieranTimberlake revises the classic vision of a glass box by cladding a home on a rocky site in Pound Ridge in a tapestry of steel, aluminum, copper, and glass. In Rhinebeck, Steven Holl experiments with a radical form that has both ecological and social dimensions. 
 
These and other examples of design-forward residences are responsive to terrain, building vernacular, and cultural legacy. Together, the new Hudson Valley houses point a way forward for rural living in the twenty-first century.  Hudson Modern: Residential Landscapes (Monacelli Press, June, 2018)
 
David Sokol is a New York-based critic specializing in architecture and design. He is a contributing editor at Architectural Record and Cultured magazines and the author of several books, including The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book and the series Nordic Architects, and writes regularly for Azure, Dwell, Departures, Surface, and numerous other publications. Before he turned his primary focus to the built environment, Sokol was managing editor of I.D. magazine.

$12

Things to Know
This event is for ages 12 and older.
Ample free public parking is available. Enter at Hyatt on Palm Canyon Drive or in the multi-level public garage across from the Palm Springs Art Museum.
Handicap parking is available. This event is wheelchair accessible.
The organizer of this event is Modernism Week.

Event Check-in Location 
CAMP Theater, Hyatt Palm Springs, 285 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262
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Photo Credits: Photo by Paul Warchol Photo by John Halpern Photo by Iwan Baan Photo by Laurie Lambrecht Photo by Paul Warchol Monacelli Press

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