North Carolina Modernist Houses
North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational archive for Modernist architecture. The mission of the organization is to document, preserve, and promote Modernist houses. Founded in 2007, the organization became a nonprofit in 2009 and operated as Triangle Modernist Houses. In 2013, it changed names to North Carolina Modernist Houses to reflect a statewide focus. Because of the NC State University School of Design (now College of Design), the state has about 1,300 Modernist houses starting in the late 1940s. George Smart is the founder and Executive Director. NCMH is recognized nationally for its accomplishments with 12 local, state, and national awards for leadership in preservation. In 2016, NCMH created US Modernist to house its national online archives.
Organization Initiatives
The US Modernist Masters Gallery
NCMH’s Masters Gallery is the largest open digital archive for 20th-century Modernist residential design in the world. Nearly every house by Wright, Neutra, Schindler, Lautner, Breuer, Gropius, Rudolph, and many more well-known architects building houses in the US.
The George Matsumoto Prize
The George Matsumoto Prize is an architecture competition featuring $6,000 in jury awards and an online public vote. The competition was created in 2012 in honor of George Matsumoto, one of the founding faculty members of North Carolina State University’s School of Design. The prize is aimed towards young architects and clients to continue the Modernism movement.
US Modernist Radio
US Modernist Radio is an iTunes podcast about Modernist buildings and houses hosted by George Smart, the founder of NCMH, Frank King, a comedian who grew up in a Raleigh Modernist house, and Tom Guild, a radio engineer who also grew up in a Modernist house.
Project BauHow
NCMH’s Project BauHow helps drafting teachers and student in rural NC high schools. Developed in 2013, Project BauHow has given away over 400 desktop Computer Aided Design (CAD) computers and monitors as of September 2016 for students to take home and keep. Later, with class instruction, they can participate in a design competition with scholarships to the NC State College of Design’s Design Camp.
The US Modernist Library (formerly called Colossus)
This is an open searchable digital archive of major 20th-century US architecture publications. Once complete, the USM Library will be the largest open digital architecture magazine collection in the world with approximately 1.3 million searchable, downloadable pages in PDF format. The Library has been featured in architecture magazines and websites including ArchDaily, and Curbed.
NCMH Legal Defense Fund
The NCMH Legal Defense Fund (LDF) provides technical assistance, funding for legal representation, and other support services to endangered Modernist houses in North Carolina. The LDF advocates for North Carolina’s legacy of Modernist residential architecture. Their most recent case was the Cherry-Gordon House] in Raleigh NC which ended in a victory for the homeowners andn LDF.
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