4th Annual Modernism Week Dates (February 13-21, 2009) and Event Schedule is Announced

The schedule of events for the next highly-anticipated Modernism Week was announced today by the event organizers.

The 4th Annual Modernism Week is slated to take place February 13 – 21, 2009 and will be include a wide variety of events over a 9-day period. As in previous years, Modernism Week will kick off with the two-day Modernism Show (February 15 and 16) at the Palm Springs Convention Center, preceded by a public Preview Reception the evening before.

The schedule for Modernism Week 2009 can be viewed on the website (http://www.modernismweek.com) and features events that include architecture tours, films, lectures, a vintage car show and many other activities held in various venues throughout the City of Palm Springs.

The Presenting Sponsor of Modernism Week 2009 is once again the City of Palm Springs. Modernism Week is a fun-filled 9-day homage to the ideals of mid-century modern design, architecture and culture. The style, which originated in the early 1950s and 60s, typified by clean, simple lines that celebrated elegant informality, came to define desert modernism.

Modernism Week is the only such event in the country that celebrates the aesthetics of modernism over so many days, making it suitable for people to plan their vacations to coincide with the event. As a result, Modernism Week has established a passionate and enthusiastic following of modernism aficionados and thousands of people from around the country and the world who travel to Palm Springs to attend.

Modernism Week is co-produced by several important local architecture and preservation entities including the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation, the Palm Springs Modern Committee, the Architecture and Design Council of the Palm Springs Art Museum, and the Palm Springs Historical Society, in collaboration with Dolphin Promotions, producers of the Palm Springs Modernism Show.

Numerous renowned architects such as Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Albert Frey and other notable pioneers of mid-century modern architecture (1940-1960) contributed to Palm Springs’ stellar examples of modernism. Inspired by the California desert climate and topography, they helped create in Palm Springs one of the most important concentration of modernist architecture in the world.