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Sunday> Panel asks, "Why Isn’t the 1947 Neutra Kaufmann House on the National Register?"

Sunday> Panel asks, "Why Isn’t the 1947 Neutra Kaufmann House on the National Register?"

Palm Springs Modernism Week is in its tenth year of celebrating the city’s architectural masterpieces and tracts of mid-century modern houses. The Architects Newspaper is, for the sixth year, a media sponsor of Modernism Week, and we are here in the Mojave desert reporting on its numerous events.

One of the highlights is the Sunday discussion and round table, “Why Isn’t the 1947 Neutra Kaufmann House on the National Register?” This working panel hosted by the California State Historic Resources Commission’s (SHRC) Modernism Committee will look at the Kaufmann house and other case studies in order to challenge “the integrity and standards used to evaluate National Register nominations” and ask whether they need to change when evaluating “the material realities of mid-century modern structures; materials that were often mass-produced, vulnerable, and easily replaced.”

The panel will include: architectural historian and California State Historic Resources Commission Beth Edwards Harris; well-known historian Alan Hess; Michigan preservationists Brian Conway, Katie Horak, Christine Lazzaretto. I am also on the panel and will discuss the research and remaking of the Lever Houses curtain wall. There are still a few tickets available for the event.

Why Isn’t the 1947 Neutra Kaufmann House on the National Register?
Hilton Palm Springs, Horizon Ballroom
400 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, $12


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