Triangle Modernist Houses

The Home of Mayberry Modernism!
Documenting, Preserving, and Promoting Residential Modernist Architecture

Welcome!

The Triangle area of North Carolina has the third largest concentration of modernist houses in America. We have more than anywhere else except Los Angeles and Chicago. Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) is an award-winning nonprofit historical archive for preserving modernist residential design. We are an early-warning system for endangered modernist houses, an exciting source for modernist house tours, an extensive catalog of North Carolina and national residential architecture, and a community of knowledgeable advocates for modernist construction.

While you're here, consider joining the Mod Squad. Get advance notice on all tours, parties, movies, and other special events -- before our main mailing list, before the media, before the public!

Share Your Story! Have you lived in, or currently own a local modernist house? Let us know about modernist houses getting built, going on the market, changing hands, or are in danger of being destroyed.

Archives: NC Modernist Houses and Architects

785 cool NC houses (35 for sale), 155 brilliant architects, over 6300 rare photos.

Special Archives:
Icons of Modern

Over 820 incredible houses from eight Icons of Modernist design: Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, John Lautner, Pierre Koenig, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, and Rudolf Schindler.

A4A:
Appetite For Architecture!

You've seen many of their cool houses on TMH. Now here's your chance to break bread with prominent members of the Triangle's design community in an intimate, small group setting.

Choose from our great lineup of special guest architects, builders, and the media including: Frank Harmon, David Crawford, Robin Abrams, Vinny Petrarca, Will Alphin, Dail Dixon, Arthur Cogswell, Bernie Reeves, Mike Welton, Thomas Crowder, Russ Stephenson, Randy Lanou, Erik Van Mehlman, Phil Szostak, Louis Cherry, Ellen Cassilly, George Smart, Leon Meyers, Brian Shawcroft, and Dick Bell. Restaurants include Solas, 18 Seaboard, Margaux's, 618 Bistro, and Panzanella.

Proceeds from three events benefit the new AIANC headquarters building in downtown Raleigh. Details and tickets here.

Nowells Architecture
Movie Series
--> 7pm, Mar 18, Infinite Space
7pm, April 22, Visual Acoustics

All shows at the Galaxy Cinema in Cary. Have a night out with this exceptional roster of architectural movies! Click for previews of Infinite Space and Visual Acoustics. Get advance $7.95 tickets and details here. $9 at the door.

Past Events:

The Lake House February 2010, Richard Meier/Eero Saarinen NYC Tour January 2010, The Fountainhead January 2010, Max Isley January 2010, West Raleigh November 2009, ModStock November 2009, Coates October 2009, Easements August 2009, Szostak/Zuco August 2009, Johnson May 2009, NCSU COD 60th Anniversary Raleigh April 2009, Cassillhaus February 2009, Dwell NextHouse October 2008, McCowan July 2008, Rugby Road May 2008.

By Mike Welton

Special Features

What I've Learned - insightful observations on life and design from our area's talented architects and designers.
Pioneering Women of NC Architecture - profiles of those who paved the way for Carolina women in design.
Triangle Shelters - the ultimate in bringing the outside in, because you are already outside.
Bryan Bell - architecture for the "98% without architects."
Frank Walser - the gifted contractor who built many of the Triangle's modernist houses from the 1950's through the 1970's. Many times he "saved the bacon" of client architects through translating unrealistic plans into load-bearing, practical realities.
Richard Hall - the unusual conversion of a former Raleigh Seventh Day Adventist Church to a private residence.
The 2008 Design Competition for AIANC's new headquarters. See who won! Help get this building started through A4A.
Macon Smith Research Grants
Master Calendar for Triangle Design Events

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