For those interested in mid-20th Century architecture, the City of Southfield, Michigan, is hosting a tour of its city’s buildings that sprung up during the 1960’s.
At that time, Southfield was Michigan’s fastest growing city. The tour will visit both residential and commercial buildings from that period.
For more information, please click through to the news and events page for the City of Southfield, Michigan.
The city of Southfield, the Southfield Historical Society and DoCoMoMo will host a Mid-Century Modern Architecture Tour on Sunday, October 12 from 2-4:30 p.m. throughout Southfield.
The bus tour will begin at 2 p.m. at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, 27375 Bell Road at 11 Mile Road, and will include some of the best examples of Mid-Century Modern architecture in Southfield, including the Northland area, a loop through Northland Gardens, Washington Heights and Cranbrook neighborhoods, as well as the Northwestern Highway Corridor. Free parking is available at Shaarey Zedek.
The tour is part of DoCoMoMo’s (Documentation & Conservation of Buildings, Sites & Neighborhood of the Modern Movement), 8th annual national tour program. Headquartered in New York City, DoCoMoMo promotes the study, interpretation and protection of the architecture, landscape and urban design of the Modern Movement. It promotes the exchange of knowledge about this important legacy which extends from the planned city and the iconic monument to the house next door. The Southfield architecture tour is one of more than 50 tours planned for the weekend of October 11-12 in 19 states and 37 cities across the U.S. For more information, visit www.docomomo-us.org/tourday.
During the 1960’s, Southfield was Michigan’s fastest growing city – resulting in an amazing collection of mid-century modern homes, commercial buildings and religious institutions that were designed by top local and internationally renowned architects such as Minoru Yamasaki, Victor Gruen, Gunnar Birkerts, Louis Redstone and Percival Goodman. The tour explores outstanding examples of such locations and will include several on-site inspections and discussion of their modern design elements.City of Southfield: https://www.cityofsouthfield.com/NewsEvents/tabid/158/mid/1480/newsid1480/1660/Southfield-to-host-Mid-Century-Modern-Architecture-Tour-October-12/Default.aspx
