by Marisa | Jul 2, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Client Stories, Mid Century Modern, Uncategorized
Image By: Tom Purcell – Builders’ Homes for Better Living – CC BY-NC 2.0 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...
by Marisa | Apr 7, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern, Places
Photo Courtesy of Thomas Hawk (CC) 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...
by Marisa | Mar 31, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
Picture sourced from Schemata Workshop 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...
by Marisa | Feb 11, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
The Sea Ranch. Iconoteca dell’Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “My own way has been to design the outward forms of nature but emphasize the results of the processes of nature…This act of...
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....
by Marisa | Dec 19, 2019 | Architectural Features, Art, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
Image via Flickr by James Vaughan World War II was cause for massive changes throughout society — down to the minutia of interior design and home aesthetics. 1945 saw a new generation of veterans with young families working tirelessly to rebuild their lives....