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Every year the Schweikher House participates in °®¶¹app Tour Day. This year is a little different and to keep everyone safe instead of offering only one day of tours, we are offering two Saturday tours, October 10th & 17th, to keep groups at a minimum and our visitors safe.ÌýTours are also offered every Friday (October 2,Ìý9, 16, 23, and 30) at 11 am & 1 pm.

Love concrete and going for a walk? Join for a casual 2.8 mile walking tour to see and learn about buildings near Harvard Square that architect Josep Lluís Sert designed or influenced!

Join °®¶¹app/Chicago for an exclusive virtual tour of the Freeark House, designed by John Vinci and Lawrence Kenny and built 1971-1975. The Freeark House embodies a broad trend in the architectural community in Chicago in the 1970s: the pervasive influence of – and the emerging reaction against – architect Mies van der Rohe.

The Hilltop House and Studio is a hand-crafted, artist-made home, built by artist Dorothy Riester (1916 - 2017) and her husband, Bob Riester. Constructed in the late 1950’s to the early 1970’s, the home is nestled in the rural hills of Cazenovia, New York.

The Historic Albany Foundation will be providing a self guided tour of a variety of midcentury architecture to be found in New York's capital region from the 1970s.

Today preservationists seek to honor and save seemingly impersonal and stark modernist buildings of the 1970s whose construction was often a bête noire of their preservationist predecessors. Buildings such as the New Haven Savings Bank (1972) or the New Haven County Courthouse (1971) present us with much to admire and ponder – they may seem formal and simple, but as we take in their cutouts and windows, ornaments and patterns appear.

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A special 1-hour long in-person tour of the James Rose Center in Ridgewood, NJ, home of modernist landscape artist James Rose. A self-guided walking tour of the Center will be made available as a podcast as a backup in case the in-person tour can not be held.

Enjoy Iowa Architectural Foundation's one-day-only architectural walking tour, Reaching New Heights— that celebrates iconic 1970s architecture downtown Des Moines.ÌýReaching New Heights will highlight the three most prominent downtown Des Moines buildings of the 1970s — the Financial Center (1973-1974), the Ruan Center (1975) and the Civic Center (1979) and give you new insights as you hear the stories behind them.Ìý

Join architectural historian Barb Powers of the Ohio History Connection for a virtual tour of the Ohio History Center. Our mid-century modern headquarters in Columbus, Ohio is celebrating its 50th anniversary later this month. See the architectural features and materials that define the building as an example of Brutalist architecture.

Beyond the disco balls, shag carpet, and avocado-colored kitchen appliances, the 1970s were a decade filled with both experimentation and anxiety within the field of architecture.ÌýJoin us for a virtual "walking tour" of Northern California where we'll take you to Santa Cruz, Larkspur, Sea Ranch, and San Francisco to see the sites of the '70s, all inside of 60 minutes!

You notice the difference the minute you turn off Fort Hunt Road. The houses are modest, nestled into the landscape and they are not in orderly rows lined up with the street. Grass exists only in patches. Garage doors are hard to find. There are no six-panel front doors or shutters on the windows. And the windows – they’re huge! What is this place? It’s Hollin Hills...

How can we promote the unique culture and community that University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has to offer? Moreover, how can we celebrate the architecture and build upon Paul Rudolph’s ideas of community to further enhance it? During these uncertain times, we aim to use our architecture to explore how we can best strive and excel on this campus and the spaces it provides.

°®¶¹app/Oregon is taking to the virtual road to celebrate architecture's most groovy era, the 1970's. Attendees will visit sites, landscapes, and public art from across the state that showcases how design in the 1970's experimented with new forms, color, texture, and psychedelic excess.

Can you dig it? The °®¶¹app/MN annual Tour Day is going virtual this year. Far out! Join us Sunday, October 11, 2020 for an online virtual tour that will crisscross the state of Minnesota, highlighting public and private sites that exemplify the outta sight (and now historic) decade of late modernism that was the 1970s.

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This live virtual walking tour will explore the prefabricated Cliff May Homes in southwest Denver’s Harvey Park neighborhood. We will look at the streetscape of this unique enclave, and take a closer look at a residence both inside and out from an architectural perspective.

Modernism Week is pleased to announce the launch of their Fall Preview Online Experience to be released for purchase and viewing at 12 p.m. PST on October 15, 2020 on modernismweek.com. The online video programs will comprise five different events (similar to programs that would typically be available during Modernism Week as live events) with prices ranging from $10 to $35 per household.

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The Pittsburgh Modern Committee is pleased to invite you join us for an open-air, autumn afternoon walking tour of modern & brutalist architecture throughout Oakland and the University of Pittsburgh campus. We'll explore more than ten sites designed during a span of over ten years, between 1962 and 1978. For those who prefer to explore this intriguing neighborhood virtually ... look forward to our subsequent release of an online gallery of all sites, related reading recommendations, and digitized archival material!

Join the Michigan Chapter of °®¶¹app and Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research as they partner with °®¶¹app for Tour Day 2020.ÌýThe Michigan celebration of Tour Day 2020 will start at Bowlero Lanes & Lounge in Royal Oak, which has been authentically renovated by the current owners, Kelly and Dean Elliott, to capture the look and feel of the 1970s.ÌýOur Zoom screens will then move to Bloomfield Hills and the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Smith House.

Join Modern Albuquerque for an exclusive virtual tour of the Albuquerque Main Public Library, the city's newest landmark! Designed by George Clayton Pearl FAIA of the architectural firm Stevens, Mallory, Pearl & Campbell, the flexible library space masterfully blends regional sensibilities with modernist principles. Completed in 1975, forward-thinking programming has kept it remarkably well-preserved - and beloved by its administrators. Many original design features have survived the years, including funky and futuristic 1970s furnishings and fabrics.

The °®¶¹app/New York Tri-State chapter we will be presenting a virtual tour of Marcus Garvey Village in Brooklyn as their contribution to °®¶¹app Tour Day 2020 celebrating the theme "The '70s Turn 50."ÌýOur guide Mark Ginsberg, FAIA of Curtis + Ginsberg Architects designed a major renovation to the complex. He will explain the project’s background, its strengths and weaknesses, how it fared over time and how the renovation revitalized the complex.. Our guide Mark Ginsberg, FAIA of Curtis + Ginsberg Architects designed a major renovation to the complex. He will explain the project’s background, its strengths and weaknesses, how it fared over time and how the renovation revitalized the complex.

The votes are in! °®¶¹app/Hawaii held a poll to see what 1970s buildings you most wanted tours of and the results are in.ÌýOut of the 28 buildings built between 1970-72 on the list, short documentary films of each of the top five vote-getters will be createdÌýand premiered during theÌýAnnual Walking Tour event. Mark your calendars forÌýOctober 24th at 4:30pm!

Please join Docomom US/PHL on Wednesday, October 28 at 6:30pm for a special Tour Day virtual event where we'll explore the George Pepper Middle School in Philadelphia's Eastwick neighborhood and Mira Nakashima's House and Reception House in New Hope.