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Join us for a night of Neutra as we discover what makes the Painted Desert Visitor Center such a treasure in Arizona.

Join the Post War Architecture Task force in partnership with Modern Phoenix as they tour Phoenix's and visit banks, classic restaurants, and other modern gems.

The Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation presents Tucson Modernism Week 2014, beginning Friday, October 3rd through Saturday, October 11th.

Architect Bruce Goff’s two Los Angeles projects – the Pavilion for Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Al Struckus House – were two of his last; both were in progress at the time of his death in 1982. The buildings were completed to widespread acclaim under the supervision of architect Bart Prince, Goff’s collaborator for nearly 15 years.

Join the Northern California Chapter of °®¶¹app on a driving tour of Daly City, including the houses of Westlake and several mid-century schools by Mario Ciampi.

Join Modernism Week for an exciting Fall Preview in Palm Springs over the Columbus Day holiday weekend (October 10-13, 2014).

A twilight walking tour of Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill area, home to glittering skyscrapers built in the 1970s and 1980s.

Join us at the La Jolla Historical Society’s Wisteria Cottage from 9:30-11:00am for coffee and pastries, to register for the home tour, and to view The Irving Gill Photographic Project.

From the very beginning, the Claremont Colleges have enjoyed buildings and master plans developed by some of the leading architects of their day.

Docent led tours will introduce the visitors to the unique sanctuary with more than 20,000 pieces of glass in 86 hues, the dalle de verre glass in 86 hues, the magnificent Visser Rowland organ and the 56 Bell carillon. The superior acoustics will be demonstrated by the church’s minister of music who will be on hand for the tours. The carillon will also be played throughout the day.

Experience the iconic Glass House site by walking through Johnson’s 47-acre curated landscape.

Join The New Haven Preservation Trust for a short walking tour of a classic Urban Renewal neighborhood, to revisit the decade of big scale, concrete experimentation and structural innovation!

This four-day architectural festival takes place in Sarasota, a culturally sophisticated community located on the gleaming Gulf of Mexico.

This tour of Honolulu’s Makiki neighborhood will include stops at nine mid-century modern apartment buildings constructed between 1958 and 1967.

Tours of the house will feature Schweikher’s masterful integration of brick, glass and wood, including an iconic brick fireplace, passive solar room, cantilevered construction, exposed wood beams, built-in furniture, and gardens designed by the noted Midwestern landscape architect Franz Lipp.

Our day-long immersion in this internationally celebrated mecca of Modern architecture features lectures and tours that includes the Miller House by Eero Saarinen.

Following the Rock Creek Park trail, this bike tour is in Montgomery County, Maryland, in greater Washington DC.

In the late 19th and early twentieth centuries the Blackstone Valley or greater Worcester area of Central Massachusetts was a thriving locus of industry and technology.

This year's tour put on by the Detroit Area Art Deco Society will offer tour attendees with a rare chance to see a number of Lustron homes on a five hour excursion through the Southeast Michigan area.

Southfield was Michigan's fastest growing city in the 1960s and with it came the modernists.

Join the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research on its fourth Day Away bus trip to visit two of Michigan’s most radical works of architecture.

This year we are going to explore modern residential design in two Saint Paul neighborhoods, one that is familiar to many—University Grove, and one that is a hidden gem—Stonebridge Boulevard.

ModernSTL will be hosting a guided walking tour of Downtown Clayton Missouri. Clayton features many outstanding examples of Mid-century Modern architecture. We will be highlighting several of these examples, as well as some potentially threatened structures.

Join Paradise Palms on a two-hour guided tour of the former celebrity homes found throughout southern Nevada's premiere mid century modern community.

Lenox Hill Healthplex

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The former headquarters of the National Maritime Union, originally designed by Albert C. Ledner and completed in 1963, has been transformed into the Lenox Hill HealthPlex, an innovative neighborhood medical complex anchored by Manhattan’s first freestanding emergency department, which opened in July. Prior to being acquired by the North Shore-LIJ Health System, the building was threatened with demolition. Following advocacy efforts by a coalition including DOCOMOMO US New York/Tri-State, it was saved.

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Get a behind the scenes look at Wallace K. Harrison’s 1975 performing arts center, The Egg, in Empire State Plaza.

The Modernist Legacy at Lewis and Clark College

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°®¶¹app/Oregon has invited scholar Libby Farr and architects from Boora and Holst to talk about the work of Paul Thiry (a pioneering northwest modernist architect) and others on the campus.

Philadelphia's Society Hill is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and successful urban renewal legacies of the postwar years.

Tour sites will include the Alcoa Corporate Centre, former IBM Branch office building, Pittsburgh Schiller School, the former New Brighton Theater, and Manchester Bidwell Corporation Headquarters.

On October 12, join Bobbie Tilkens-Fisher for an object-centered tour of her nationally-recognized (Atomic Ranch Magazine, Houzz.com, New York Times) mid-century modern home designed by Philadelphia architect Irwin Stein.

The MidTexMod chapter of °®¶¹app is is proud to host a tour of three Milton Ryan properties in the San Antonio region as part of °®¶¹app Tour Day 2014.

Houston Mod and Preservation Houston invite you to join us for a reprise of the special downtown walking tour offered during the °®¶¹app National Symposium in the spring.

The North Texas Chapter of °®¶¹app and Preservation Dallas Invite you to join us for a tour of Exchange Park.

You are invited to tour a striking mid-century modern home in a well established neighborhood in Tyler.

°®¶¹app/DC will host a walking tour of the modernist enclave of Southwest Washington DC on Oct. 11. To mark °®¶¹app-US’s National Tour Day, the newly formed Washington chapter will highlight the neighborhood’s historically significant mid-century modern architecture.

The Little Finn Hill neighborhood in Kirkland, Washington is home to a collection of modest, midcentury modern residences designed by revered Northwest architect Paul Hayden Kirk for a developer.