by Lynne Rostochil It’s hard to believe that we’re at the end of another year, but here we are and that means it’s time to take a look back and recap our favorite Mod Blogs of 2018. Here we go! 1964: The Year of the Sonic Boom This post was certainly one of the most […]
by Lynne Rostochil. To say that Bob Jones enhanced Oklahoma’s architectural landscape with his visionary designs is an understatement. Simply put and with no exaggeration at all, he was a creative genius who has left his home state with a treasure trove of modern buildings that I hope we will preserve for eons. Sadly, Jones died […]
by Lynne Rostochil When it was completed in 1962, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church created quite a sensation, especially when architectural photographer Julius Shulman came to town to take pictures of this elegant piece of modernism then shared his images with various publications upon his return home. The editors of Progressive Architecture were smitten and decided to put […]
by Lynne Rostochil Thanks to an invitation from the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture (TFA), last week several Squadders got to check out the little piece of perfection on a quiet wooded lot in Tulsa known as the Jones House: (Lynne Rostochil) The home was designed by Robert Lawton Jones as his personal residence and was constructed […]
photos and text by Lynne Rostochil Last Saturday, I, along with fellow Squadders Terri, Matt and Robyn, made the trek up the Turnpike to Tulsa and met up with Tulsa Modern members Shane Hood and Rex Brown (who also writes the Oklahoma Modern blog) for a tour of mid-century modern architecture in their neck of […]