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Coast Modern
by Dan
Architecture + Vancouver / July 30, 2010
A core group of architects embraced the Coast with its particular geography and values and they have left behind a legacy of beautiful and inspired dwellings. Today, architects have picked up the thread and they continue to explore and celebrate the principles established by their predecessors.
Produced by Leah Mallen at Vancouver's TwoFold Film, Coast Modern is a documentary about the legacy of modern architects on the west coast of North America. Filmmakers Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome travel from Los Angeles to Vancouver and explore the history of modern architecture from 1922 up to the present:
The film is still in production and yet to be released. In the meantime, if you're interested in historic west coast modernism, you might want to pick up Forgotten Modern: California Houses 1940-1970, a beautiful book on the innovative mid-century architects working on the west coast, and NorCalMod: Icons Of Northern California Modernist Architecture which documents history of modernism in the Bay Area.
Or, if you're a feeling in the need of something more kitsch, Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture takes a look at the iconic 1950s coffee shops and car-oriented mid-century architecture of Southern California (we still have a few copies in stock!).
