Join former Historic Preservation Officer Don Meserve on a guided bus tour through four of Scottsdale's most specacular and artistic midcentury modern churches. Tour bus meets at south end of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets on sale here through Eventbrite.

Explore the architecture and past of this mid-century-modern landmark, a Hollywood hideaway since 1956 and host to stars like Janet Leigh, Bing Crosby, and Natalie Wood. Designed by architect Edward Varney, Hotel Valley Ho is known for its “Flintstones meets Jetsons” style. Tour meets at the Valley Ho. Valet Parking available. Questions? Call (480) 634-6850. Tickets are $19.56 online here or at 480.499.TKTS (8587)

Explore pop-up shops to find new products or services related to Modernism, architecture, interior design, literature and home renovation. Vintage fashion, jewelry, furniture, lighting and accessories. Meet contemporary interior designers, landscapers, furniture designers, green builders, architects, historians, preservationists and other professionals to help you get your job done! Home tour ticketholders enjoy FREE admission to SMoCA all day long

John and Donna guide a small group through researching a midcentury home or neighborhood using local resources and online databases. Workshop features access to the Modern Phoenix archives of vintage magazines and newspapers from the 50s and 60s, and John's personal collection of primary sources. Meets in the studio behind Stage 2 at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.

Explore pop-up shops to find new products or services related to Modernism, architecture, interior design, literature and home renovation. Vintage fashion, jewelry, furniture, lighting and accessories. Meet contemporary interior designers, landscapers, furniture designers, green builders, architects, historians, preservationists and other professionals to help you get your job done! Home tour ticketholders enjoy FREE admission to SMoCA all day long.

Scholarship on the textile artist Harwood Steiger is meager, but the impact of the artist and his work in the southern Arizona village of Tubac is significant. This presentation will touch upon the artist’s life in Tubac, his approach to his art, and his community contributions. Cynthia's richly illustrated show represents the archaeological digging of one addicted collector and the treasures she has found in Arizona and beyond. Steiger was a true mid century artist who loved the Sonoran Desert, the plants and animals which thrive there, and the many people and places he came to know. In addition to his whimsical representations of desert life, he produced stunning abstractions that are as exciting today as they were in the 1950s through the 1970s.

Explore pop-up shops to find new products or services related to Modernism, architecture, interior design, literature and home renovation. Vintage fashion, jewelry, furniture, lighting and accessories. Meet contemporary interior designers, landscapers, furniture designers, green builders, architects, historians, preservationists and other professionals to help you get your job done! Home tour ticketholders enjoy FREE admission to SMoCA all day long

Paolo Soleri is an architect, philosopher and a citizen of the planet. Fans have gone as far as to compare him to DaVinci and Gandhi, but critics believed him to be an ego driven eccentric with a failed experiment out in the desert. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo's utopian vision has been steadfast, urban sprawl is destroying the planet and the answer is to build mega-structure cities a hundred times the size of the Empire State Building. Explore the artist, the dreamer, the philosopher, the architect Paolo Soleri as he tries to build his new world filled with futuristic ideas and controversy. Tickets are $7 online here, or at 480.499.TKTS (8587). VIEW TRAILER >>

Explore pop-up shops to find new products or services related to Modernism, architecture, interior design, literature and home renovation. Vintage fashion, jewelry, furniture, lighting and accessories. Meet contemporary interior designers, landscapers, furniture designers, green builders, architects, historians, preservationists and other professionals to help you get your job done! Home tour ticketholders enjoy FREE admission to SMoCA all day long

Check out all the amazing door prize contributors! Visit our Modern Marketplace and enter to win original and locally-crafted design. Must be present at time of drawing to win! Contact alison@modernphoenix.net to become a door prize contributor.

Organic Architecture: The Other Modernism illuminates the broad brush stroke of Organic residential architecture throughout the panorama of twentieth-century Modernism. A wide-ranging style that defies definition, Organic buildings are notable in their curves and colors, as well as their exuberant, opulent, and at times, extravagant complexity of line, form, texture, structure, and color. Author Alan Hess shows why the Organic movement has remained a strong, deep-running current in culture and design. Hess is the author of Organic Architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses. Both books will be available for signing after the talk.