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Collection by Allie Weiss

A Peek Inside Famous Modernist Enclaves Around the USA

From Sarasota to Sea Ranch, these communities thrive with rich repositories of modern architecture.

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Benjamin Moore’s Tomato Red provides “punctuation” to the exterior. “That was the cheapest way to have that hot spark of color,” Pirman explains.
Benjamin Moore’s Tomato Red provides “punctuation” to the exterior. “That was the cheapest way to have that hot spark of color,” Pirman explains.
This 1965 home on Tarpon Walk updates the the shingle-style beach house so common in Long Island vernacular architecture. Delicately balanced on slender tower bases—a “spaceship” as Gifford called it—it hovers over its earthbound neighbors.
This 1965 home on Tarpon Walk updates the the shingle-style beach house so common in Long Island vernacular architecture. Delicately balanced on slender tower bases—a “spaceship” as Gifford called it—it hovers over its earthbound neighbors.
A new addition to Sea Ranch’s enclave of utopian homes, this structure (and the separate guesthouse seen here) clad in rough concrete and Cor-ten steel seamlessly blends in with its half-a-century-old California neighbors. Designed by the dean of the Woodbury School of Architecture and the head of the University of Oregon’s architecture department, its spaces flow into one another underneath an angled plywood ceiling and illuminate built-in furniture crafted from vertical-grain Douglas fir.
A new addition to Sea Ranch’s enclave of utopian homes, this structure (and the separate guesthouse seen here) clad in rough concrete and Cor-ten steel seamlessly blends in with its half-a-century-old California neighbors. Designed by the dean of the Woodbury School of Architecture and the head of the University of Oregon’s architecture department, its spaces flow into one another underneath an angled plywood ceiling and illuminate built-in furniture crafted from vertical-grain Douglas fir.
Crestwood Hills, in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, is an endangered enclave of midcentury post-and-beam houses designed by A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith.
Crestwood Hills, in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, is an endangered enclave of midcentury post-and-beam houses designed by A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith.
A one-story villa in Lafayette Park.
A one-story villa in Lafayette Park.
The Frey II House in Palm Springs, designed by architect Albert Frey.
The Frey II House in Palm Springs, designed by architect Albert Frey.