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William Francis Cody (1916 – 1978) was an influential desert modern architect working in Palm Springs during the peak of the Modern Architecture Movement. Like many of the architects during the mid-20th century, Cody designed almost anything Palm Springs allowed him to; houses, cluster housing, churches, offices, restaurants, schools, hotels, and club houses.
The Palm Springs School of Architecture, is a regional style of post-war architecture that emerged in Palm Springs, California, and is closely associated with Desert Modernism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Many of the architects who pioneered this style became world-renowned later in their own careers.
Modernism Week is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Palm Springs, California that provides public education programming fostering knowledge and appreciation of modern architecture, the mid-century modern architecture and design movement, the Palm Springs School of Architecture, as well as contemporary considerations surrounding historic preservation, cultural heritage, adaptive reuse, and ...
Albert Frey (/ ˈ f r eɪ / FRAY; October 18, 1903 – November 14, 1998) was a Swiss-born architect who established a style of modernist architecture centered on Palm Springs, California, United States, that came to be known as "desert modernism".
Williams's father, Harry Williams, was an architect originally based in Dayton, Ohio best known for designing the offices of National Cash Register-NCR.In 1934, Julia Carnell, whose husband was the comptroller of NCR, decided that a commercial development in Palm Springs, California, where she wintered, would be a good investment and brought Harry Williams to Palm Springs to design the ...
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The Kaufmann house was included in a list of all-time top 10 houses in Los Angeles, despite its location in Palm Springs, in a Los Angeles Times survey of experts in December 2008. [9] The house was a filming location for the 2022 film Don't Worry Darling. [10]
The thermal springs are 12,000 to 17,000 years old and spew about 200,000 gallons every day. My left leg was in pain from days of nonstop walking and I thought this would be a good test.