Triangle Modernist Houses

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 a nonprofit historical archive for preserving modernist residential design. We are an early-warning system for endangered modernist houses, an exclusive source for exciting 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), 126 brilliant NC architects, over 4650 rare photos

Special Archives:
Icons of Modern

Over 820 incredible houses from nine Icons of Modernist design: Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, John Lautner, Pierre Koenig, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, Paul Rudolph, and Rudolf Schindler. Over 1620 rare photos.

Coming Soon - A4A: Appetite For Architecture!

Dreaming of a new modernist house? Or an exciting renovation? Thinking about architecture as a career? Always admired a certain local architect? Here's your chance to have dinner out with one (or two) of our talented Triangle architects in an intimate setting. Minimum of seven guests, maximum of eleven.

Nowells Architecture
Movie Series
7pm, Feb 18, Mar 18, and April 22

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

Past Events:

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're 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!

Featured in:

Member of:

Are You Mod-dicted?

Connect to the latest information on cool house tours, preservation events, parties, workshops, architect profiles, and hard-to-find houses for sale!

Email:

Sponsors

Our detailed content is the most extensive in the US -- which is why devoted modernist-oriented visitors return again and again. Advertise or sponsor a house tour or movie series and gain access to the Triangle's best design fans!

Awards

2009 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Community Appearance from the City of Raleigh.

2009 Paul E. Buchanan Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum, established in 1993 to recognize contributions to the study and preservation of vernacular architecture and the cultural landscape that do not take the form of books or published work.

2008 Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit by Preservation North Carolina for individuals and organizations that have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to promoting historic preservation.

2008 Award of Merit by the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill for the effective use of the internet as a educational and preservation tool.