Tag: alan hess
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Alan Hess. Donald Wexler 1926-2015
Wexler & Harrison, Lilliana Gardens House, Palm Springs 1954, ph. Emanuele Piccardo No one realized it at the time, but midcentury Palm Springs was a golden age of modern architecture. Donald Wexler, one of its leading figures, died June 26 at age 89. He and his remarkably talented local colleagues (William Francis Cody, Albert…
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Alan Hess. Palm Springs Modern Architecture
Donald Wexler, Wexler house (1954), Palm Springs The history of Modern architecture looks different from the corner of Tahquitz Canyon Way and Palm Canyon Drive in the center of downtown Palm Springs. It’s a small town, and it was even smaller in the 1950s when Modern architecture took firm root in the area. The desert…
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Emanuele Piccardo. Holiday Houses
Richard Neutra, Kaufmann House (1946-47), fotografia Emanuele Piccardo Holiday Houses è la nuova indagine critica che fa apparire il quarto numero di archphoto2.0 come quello più architettonico, senza quell’attraversamento disciplinare e quell’orientamento politico che ha caratterizzato le altre uscite editoriali. Il tema nasce dal viaggio che ho compiuto nel luglio 2012 in California, dove la…