by Marisa | Jul 10, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern, Uncategorized
Forty years after his passing, Paul Revere Williams remains one of the most prominent names in architecture. Known as the “Architect of the Stars’, he designed for a long list of celebrity clients. His signature script graces the side of the Beverly Hills Hotel...
by Marisa | Jul 2, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Client Stories, Mid Century Modern, Uncategorized
You probably know Jones for his formidable work in Southern California. Credited with over 5,000 builds, including whole middle-class communities in the modernist style, even to this day his homes are coveted among the wealthy and famous. It was in December of 1950...
by Marisa | Apr 7, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern, Places
Pietro Belluschi is our city’s most acclaimed and accomplished architect as well as one of the great American modernists of the 20th century. Over the course of his career, Belluschi participated in the design of more than 1,000 buildings, in the Pacific Northwest and...
by Marisa | Mar 31, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
The word “utopia” stems from the Greek ou-topos, meaning “no place”, but at the same time, it also refers to eu-topos, “a good place.” It was first coined by Thomas Moore in 1516, which was used to describe a fictional island society in Greece. The origins of the word...
by Marisa | Feb 11, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
“My own way has been to design the outward forms of nature but emphasize the results of the processes of nature…This act of transmuting the experience of the natural landscape into a human-made experience is, for me, the essence of the art of landscape...
by Marisa | Feb 6, 2020 | Atomic Living, Listing, Mid Century Modern, Modern Homes
10375 SW 42nd Ave. Portland, Oregon, 97219 Pristine mid-century design with classic Northwest Regional style features throughout. Spacious sunken living room with a soaring vaulted wood ceiling, exposed beams and a wall of windows with Mt. Hood and territorial views....
