Palm Springs Modern Homes Palm Springs, California

摘要

There may be no second acts in American public lives, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once pronounced, but in Palm Springs, California, Midcentury Modernism has returned for a high-profile encore. In a series of very successful housing projects, DesignARC-with offices in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Orange County-has taken up the ethos and architectural vocabulary of the resort's many Modernist buildings within the parameters of the speculative marketplace. Turns out, design sells. From the time Lloyd Wright and Albert Frei erected their structures in this desert community outside Los Angeles, Modernists have enjoyed a strong presence in an environment especially suited to light, porous, indoor/outdoor structures. In the 1960s, A. Quincy Jones, fresh from his successes with Eichler Homes, built a spec development for Alexander Model Homes-one of only a handful of housing tracts in the U. S. designed as Modernist developments.