Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island explores the work of the region’s best postwar architects and designers, including Albert Frey, Wallace Harrison, Herbert Beckhard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horace Gifford, Edward Durrell Stone, Marcel Breuer, Andrew Geller, Philip Johnson, Charles Gwathmey, Barbara and Julian Neski, and others. The film features interviews with architects and historians, as well as friends, families and clients of these influential designers. “Long Island has a rich heritage of midcentury modern architecture,” says Director Jake Gorst. “Sadly, much of it has disappeared because of redevelopment and natural disaster. We believe the film will foster renewed awareness and appreciation for Long Island’s remaining modernist structures and its unique architectural history.
This is a fundraiser for Houston Mod and Design Onscreen. Design Onscreen will use its donations to fund production of a film on Houston modern architecture by Sam Wainwright Douglas, called Lone Star Mod: Midcentury Houston Architecture.
Venue.- Landmark River Oaks Theater, 2009 West Gray Street, Houston, Texas 77019. USA.
Date.- This screening will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 23, 2012.
Tickets are available online at www.landmarktheatres.com and at the door.
