Modern Tulsa is excited to announce its first ever mod of the moment, an effort by modern tulsa to showcase modern homes currently on the market. join us Sunday January, 17th from  4 – 6 pm for drinks, refreshments, music and modern design at a 1954 Cecil Stanfield designed mid-century modern home located at 3576 S. Winston Avenue on the corner of 36th street and South Winston.

This home has all of its original charm including floor to ceiling windows in the dining room, living room, master bedroom and guest bedroom along with modern updates. It has a very open and airy floor plan with vaulted ceilings and exposed brick inside. The large living area with wood burning fireplace is connected to the dining room and kitchen. There are 3 bedrooms total with the master having a private half bath. The main bathroom is good size and nice and bright with skylights in both baths. Newer, clean carpet, central air, high end fridge provided. The home is located in Mid-Town tulsa close to downtown and just down the street from shopping and eating.  sorry, furniture not included.

Modern Tulsa would like to thank  BCBC Modern for sponsoring “mod of the month”

The house is listed with Walter and Associates at $144,900. LISTING

see more photos here

Could”L” be for Lortondale? or “U” for the University Tower downtown? Watch to find out!

What makes Tulsa so special? Jack Frank shows you many of the things (in alphabetic order of course) in this new and somewhat zany documentary. From the Admiral Twin, the city’s last remaining drive-in, to the Indy 500 race cars built by Tulsan Jack Zink, the show is jammed with tidbits about Tulsa and its colorful past. The show stops at Route 66 icons, including the Meadow Gold sign and the old 11th street bridge. It also visits timeless eateries like Nelson’s and White River Fish Market. There are also fun stories about icons such as the Golden Driller, the IPE Building, the Perryman Cemetery, Council Oak Tree and the Ole Lady on Brady. Also included is some history about the naming of Tulsa streets. Even if you’ve never stepped foot in Tulsa, you’ll love learning more about it.

The Tulsa A to Z one half-hour version will air Monday, November 30th at 7:30 pm on Channel 6.

The complete hour-long version will air Wednesday, December 2nd at 7 pm on OETA Channel 11.

Tulsa A to Z is proudly sponsored by SpiritBank.

for more information visit:

http://www.tulsafilms.com/our-films/tulsa-a-to-z/

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Join Modern Tulsa Wednesday, August 26th at 7:30 as we celebrate the El Rancho Grande neon sign restoration. Come meet and mingle with other Modern-Junkies as we enjoy 1/2 price margaritas and appetizers. El Rancho Grande is Tulsa’s only remaining authentic Route 66 eatery. In the same location since 1953, its iconic neon sign has faithfully advertised “Tulsa’s Grandest Tex-Mex Tradition”.

Come find out about upcoming Modern Tulsa events and how you can get involved. Hope to see you there!

Auspicious Vision

Edward Wales Root and American Modernism
August 23 – November 29, 2009, Philbrook

From 1902 and 1953, Edward Wales Root amassed a spectacular collection of contemporary American art which became the cornerstone of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute collection with his bequest of 227 works in 1957. This exhibition surveys Root’s wide ranging interests in such artists as Maurice Prendergast, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and more.

This traveling exhibition was organized by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York. The national tour sponsor for the exhibition is the MetLife Foundation. The Henry Luce Foundation provided funding for the conservation of artworks in the exhibition.

Think Architecture | Think Beyond Lecture with Coleman Coker

5:30 pm – Reception / 6:00 pm – Lecture,

OSU-Tulsa Auditorium, 700 North Greenwood Avenue, Tulsa, OK

To register, click here or visit the AIA Eastern Oklahoma home page at www.AIAeok.org

Coleman Coker, RA is the Ruth Carter Stevenson Chair at the University of Texas, School of Architecture in Austin and Professor of Practice at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He holds a Master of Fine Arts and an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Memphis College of Art. Coker is former director of the Memphis Center of Architecture, a collaborative program of design open to advanced architecture students in the region and sponsored by the University of Tennessee and the University of Arkansas. He’s been the visiting Favrot Chair at Tulane and has held the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the University of Arkansas.
Coker founded buildingstudio in 1999 after a 13-year partnership with Samuel Mockbee as Mockbee/Coker Architects. buildingstudio is a collaborative firm focusing on inventive and imaginative work, regularly acknowledged for its design excellence. They’ve received numerous honors including a P/A Design Award for low-cost housing “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty,” Emerging Voices from the Architectural League of New York, numerous Architectural Record, “Record House” awards and National AIA Honor awards. buildingstudio’s work has been highlighted at MoMA, SF MoMA, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Coleman Coker will present buildingstudio’s recent work with a focus on the responsibility of the architect as an integral member of their community.

His presentation will address the following topics:
* Environmental issues
* Materials and systems
* Sustainable design intent and innovation
* Collective wisdom and feedback loops

Mr. Coker’s presentation is pending approval for one (1) Learning Unit-HSW.

Register NOW for what promises to be an entertaining and educational presentation that concludes the 2009 Think ArchiTecture | Think Beyond series organized by the Chapter’s Young Architects Forum.