MetroABQ Blog

There are some great organizations springing up to celebrate the Mid-Century Modern architectural movement in the MetroABQ. One such group, Modern Albuquerque, organized a fabulous Mid Mod Home Tour & I am excited to see some of the other guided tours they have in store.

I experienced their self-guided Mid Mod Homes tour & it was a fantastic day of modernist expression, from furniture to architecture. 

Another great resource is Albuquerque Modernism. From the website: 

Albuquerque Modernism is a public history project created by students in a fall 2015 seminar at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning.

Mid-century technological innovations, social and political transformations, and economic conditions created a dramatically new built environment in Albuquerque, one visible in both the citys tremendous growth in area and in the new kinds of buildings that populated a place at the literal and figurative intersection of the Manhattan Project and Route 66.

It is these places and spaces that form the subject of Albuquerque Modernism, which takes up twenty-six key sites in the emergence and transformation of modern architecture and planning here. While the buildings, landscapes, and plans described in this sites case studies are by no means the only examples of modernism in Albuquerque, they provide a representative sample of the building types, locations, designers, and forms that characterized the modern movement in the metropolitan area.

Check out their MetroABQ Mid-Century Modern Map:

Below is an image of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, a Mid-Century Expressionist gem. Read more...