Modernism Week 2008
We can all look forward to Modernsim Week 2008 , Feburary 15 - 24. Palm Springs Preservation Foundation is sponsoring three events:
Click here to puchase tickets to these events: Modernism Week Tickets.
Palm Springs Re-Imagined
You can play an important role in the future of Palm Springs. The city, noted for its Mid-Century Modernism style is at the crossroads. The question is: How can we preserve the best and update the rest?
So we are asking prominent California architectural/landscape/city planning firms to submit ideas for a newly re-imagined Palm Canyon Drive. Your plans will be celebrated in Palm Springs on February 23, 2008 at the desert's popular Modernism Week. In attendance will be your colleagues, members of the Foundation, a large number of developers and many city officials. These are the people who can make your plans a reality.
After the event, your plans will be posted on our popular web site and published in a tribute journal marking the occasion. Your plans will also be reproduced in a future issue of the well-regarded magazine Season in the Sun.
The deadline has been extended to January 15 2008 for submissions. Palm Springs is at a critical juncture. You can play an important role in our future. We welcome the opportunity to work with you. For further details contact Doug Hudson at doughud@aol.com.
Click here to learn more about the Palm Springs Re-Imagined event.
To learn more about Palm Springs architecture take the Class One Historical Site Self Tour .
PSPF Board Meeting
Our board meetings happen on the 2nd thursday of every month. If you would like to attend please drop us a note
Palm Springs General Plan Update Project
The City of Palm Springs has embarked upon an exciting new process that will shape the city's future! It has developed a vision that will guide future development and the city's growth over the next twenty years or so. Use this website as a tool to participate in the planning process!
Vist their site at: Palm Springs General Plan Update Project
Palm Springs Interim Downtown Urban Design Guidelines
This document is in PDF format and will need to be viewed utilizing Adobe Acrobat Reader.
View this document here .
Rizzoli International will release Julius Shulman: Palm Springs at the Palm Springs Art Museum in February 2008.
Julius Shulman: Palm Springs is a collaboration between the exhibition’s curator Michael Stern and architectural historian Alan Hess. This work features a look at Shulman’s 70-year documentation of Palm Springs’ stellar collection of mid-century modern architecture. Several of Shulman’s most famous photographs were taken in the Desert area and will be featured in the book, along with many vintage photographs never before seen by the general public.
The exhibition, which opens February 15, 2008 in the architecturally-significant E. Stewart Williams-designed Palm Springs Art Museum, will consist of approximately 150 photographs that include locations by renowned architects including Richard Neutra, A. Quincy Jones, Paul Williams, John Lautner, E. Stewart Williams, Albert Frey, William Cody, Donald Wexler, and Palmer & Krisel, among others. The photos are compiled from the holdings of the Getty Museum and Palm Springs Art Museum, as well as private collections.
The Palm Springs Art Museum is open on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. Admission is free to members; $12.50 for adults; $10.50 for seniors 62 and over; $5.00 for children 6 to 17, students, and active-duty military with I.D. and free to children under 6. For more information, call 760.325.7186 or visit us online at psmuseum.org
