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It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to Michigan and Detroit for the Fourth THURSDAY, JUNE 9 Annual Docomomo US National Symposium. The Board of Docomomo US, our staff, 6:15 pm Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America the members and board of the Michigan chapter and all our volunteers, trust that Brian Conway, Keynote address you will enjoy and be inspired by the various presentations, discussions and tours. McGregor Memorial Conference Center, Wayne State University This is an important meeting for us. Docomomo International as originally conceived in Europe, almost 30 years ago, set out as its mission the preservation of the heritage of the Modern Movement. Following those principles, we have focused FRIDAY, JUNE 10 our education and advocacy efforts on the design and architecture dating from the 8:30 am Why Save New Formalism? decades immediately before and after WWII. Now, after more than twenty years, DeRoy Auditorium, Wayne State University we are well into the next century and we need to reach a consensus how we will approach advocacy for the heritage of the latter part of the 20th century. That this 10:00 am Urban Renewal as Heritage discussion is to take place here in Detroit would seem oddly appropriate and fitting. DeRoy Auditorium, Wayne State University Michigan was one of the prime centers of design and architecture in America and, as far back as the early part of the 20th century, Europeans came here to see and 1:00 pm Beyond Modernism. A Debate. admire the work of Albert Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eliel and Eero Saarinen and DeRoy Auditorium, Wayne State University others. Many of these same foreign visitors became or were part of what is called 1:30 pm Tour: FR1 – General Motors Technical Center the Modern Movement, a term that is captured in Docomomo’s name.

2:00 pm Tour: FR2 – Yamasaki in the Cultural Center Our interest in this symposium thus goes beyond celebrating and experiencing what has been aptly named Michigan Modern and what many see as a quintessential American modernism that had a broad impact both in the US and abroad. We want th SATURDAY, JUNE 11 to look at the later decades of the 20 century and Michigan is once again an appropriate place to do that. Presentations and tours will include the work of Minoru 9:30 am Tour: SA1 – Downtown Detroit’s Modernist Architecture Yamasaki and John Portman. The question whether these architects and others are still to be considered modernists within the advocacy purview of Docomomo will 9:30 am Tour: SA2 – Grosse Pointe Modern Masterpieces be the issue to be addressed in the final session of the symposium. The format 10:00 am Tour: Preservation Detroit walking tours we have selected for that session is one of a ‘debate’ with both sides arguing and discussing their point of view as it relates to the origins and mission of the original 2:30 pm Tour: SA3 – Mid-Century Explodes in Southfield, Michigan Docomomo orthodoxy. We hope that you will participate in what promises to be a 2:30 pm Tour: SA4 – Tour Lafayette Park lively discussion and exchange of ideas. Finally, the program and its tours would not have been possible without the efforts of many organizations and individuals. The Board of Docomomo US would like to SUNDAY, JUNE 12 thank the Michigan Chapter, Docomomo US/MI, the staff, the volunteers and the many sponsors for their support. It is their efforts that will make this symposium a 9:00 am Tour: SU1 – Ann Arbor, Mid Century Modern Mecca success and, to use our motto, help us: Moving Modern Forward. 9:00 am Tour: SU2 – Cranbrook Modern to Contemporary On behalf of the Board of Directors of DOCOMOMO US

Theodore Prudon, President

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The Docomomo US National Symposium Detroit 2016 – Beyond Modernism is The Docomomo US National Symposium is the foremost event in the United a collaboration of Docomomo US and Docomomo US/Michigan. Please help States for individuals, organizations and businesses interested or engaged in the us thank those who have made this symposium possible. preservation of modern architecture. The National Symposium seeks to highlight the national and regional contributions of this legacy by taking place in a different region of the country each year. National Symposium Partners Bronze Docomomo US and Friends Campus Realty/ArchInvest Docomomo US is dedicated to the preservation of modern architecture, landscape A2Modern Christman Capital Development Company and design. Through advocacy, education and documentation, we provide leadership Cranbrook Center for Collections and Friends and knowledge by demonstrating the importance of modern design principles Research including the social context, technical merits, aesthetics and settings of these impor- Detroit City Council Detroit Area Art Deco Society tant pieces of American history. George Etheridge, Legacy Films & General Motors Graphics Founded in 1995, Docomomo US is a 501(c)3 registered non-profit organization Grosse Pointe Historical Society composed of a union of members and regional chapters that share its members’ Michigan Historic Preservation Network knowledge of and enthusiasm for modern architecture. Committed to the principle Michigan Modern that modern design merits the attention and preservation received by earlier periods, Michigan State Historic Preservation Symposium Organizers and Docomomo US and its chapters promote public interest in it through lectures, Office Advisory Team walking tours, and advocacy efforts to protect endangered sites and buildings. Preservation Detroit Janese Chapman Docomomo US Chapters Board of Directors City of Southfield Brian Conway Chicago Theodore Prudon, President DC Robert Meckfessel, Vice-President Deborah Goldstein Florida Flora Chou, Treasurer National Symposium Sponsors Ruth Mills Georgia Jack Pyburn, Secretary and Supporters Jen Ruud Hawaii Christopher Barley Platinum Michigan Meredith Arms Bzdak Rebecca Savage Quinn Evans Architects Mid Tex Mod Todd Grover Grace Shackman Minnesota T. Gunny Harboe Gold Kim Silarski New England Robert Pullum New Orleans/Louisiana Robert Thomas Quicken Loans/Rock Ventures Southfield Mayor, Ken Siver New York/Tri-State Monica Schaffer Julia Taubman Gary Spondike Northern California Barry Solar Silver Liz Waytkus North Texas Bradford J. White Oregon Hunter Palmer Wright DSGN Gregory Wittkopp Philadelphia Barbara Yanni Harboe Architects Southern California Lord Aeck Sargent Special Guests Western Washington Staff Liz Waytkus, Executive Director Mills + Schnoering Architects Henry Guthard Friend Organizations Jessica Smith, Coordinator Nixon Peabody Ruth Adler Schnee Houston Mod Indiana Modern Prudon & Partners Landmark Columbus Yamasaki Legacy Project Modern STL North Carolina Modernist Houses Palm Springs Modernism Week

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Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America June 9th – 6:15 PM McGregor Memorial Conference Center, Wayne State University Michigan made everyday life modern. Its educational institutions trained generations of talented architects and designers. Its furniture manufacturers transformed homes and offices. Its auto industry designed and styled the cars that came to represent the American dream. Michigan architects defined an era. This first of two books culminates the Michigan Modern Project, a focused effort to study and evaluate Michigan’s role in the development of modernism.

SPEAKER Brian D. Conway is Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Officer. As State Historic Preservation Officer, Mr. Conway directs the division of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, charged with the responsibility for the identification, registration, protection and development of historic properties throughout the state. The State Historic Preservation Office promotes the reuse of, and investment in, historic buildings. The State Historic Preservation Office initiated the Michigan Modern Project in 2009 with research, context development and identification of midcentury era resources. The rich story that evolved resulted in two major museum exhibitions, three national symposia, the NHL designation for three sites, numerous national register listings and two forthcoming books (fall 2016 and fall 2017).

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Why Save New Formalism? Urban Renewal as Heritage June 10th – 8:30 AM – DeRoy Audiotrium, Wayne State University June 10th – 10:00 AM – DeRoy Audiotrium, Wayne State University Two decades ago the legacy of New Formalism and its two major protagonists, Detroit like many cities in America saw urban renewal as a way to bring aging urban Edward Durell Stone and Minoru Yamasaki, was uncertain and their place in modern downtowns into the 20th Century. One of the great capitals of the technological orthodoxy was unclear. Now the source of advocacy efforts and recognized for their revolution, Detroit’s downtown area underwent proposals by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, significance, is that still true today? When did that viewpoint change and is the New saw large developments efforts such as the John Portman designed Renaissance Formalist distinction relevant to Docomomo’s advocacy? Center (1977) and the rare Isamu Noguchi designed Philip A Hart Plaza (1979). As cities seek to regain their waterfronts and strengthen downtown cores, are these SPEAKERS urban interventions significant today and how should they be saved in light of the fact Dale Allen Gyure is Professor of Architecture at Lawrence Tech that many have not been well maintained or are not in use as they were intended? University in Southfield, Michigan, where he teaches classes in architectural history and theory, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at Goucher College, where he teaches American Architectural History and serves as Co-Director of the Master’s Thesis program. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Frank Gyure Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. Dr. Gyure’s research focuses on American architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly the intersections of architecture, education, and Manning Thomas Poris Miller society. His current projects are a book on Detroit architect Minoru Yamasaki and a study of postwar American high schools. SPEAKERS John Gallagher is a veteran journalist who writes about urban and June Manning Thomas, Ph.D., is Centennial Professor of Urban and Regional economic development for the Detroit Free Press. He joined the Planning at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban newspaper in 1987. John’s other books include Great Architecture Planning. In 2003 she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Institute of Certified of Michigan and, as co-author, AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Planners. She is President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Gallagher Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. (2013-15). Her books include the co-edited Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows (Sage, 1996); Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Hicks Stone is the founder and principal of Stone Architecture, Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, second edition LLC. He opened his practice in New York in 1991 after working Wayne State University Press, 2013); Planning Progress: Lessons from Shoghi Effendi as a senior designer in the office of Philip Johnson and John (Association for Baha’i Studies, 1999); the co-edited, Margaret Dewar and June Burgee Architects. Stone received his Master’s of Architecture Thomas, The City after Abandonment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), as well from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1983 and as many articles and book chapters. a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hamilton College in 1978. He has a national practice, currently based in Roxbury, Connecticut, with Michael Poris, AIA, has spent most of his professional life dedicated to a resurgent projects from Maine to Florida and the Bahamas to California. His 21st-century Detroit. As a founder of McIntosh Poris Associates, Michael has Stone firm’s principal focus is on the design of residential housing, retail directed more than 600 projects during the past 20 years – from developing boutiques and cultural facilities. Hicks is also a son of the famed multimillion-dollar homes, to rehabilitating Detroit’s landmarks, to designing some of late American architect, Edward Durell Stone, the architect of the the area’s most popular go-to destinations. He received his Bachelor of Architecture John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, degree from the University of Michigan, studied modern architectural history at Yale D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has written a University, and received his Masters of Architecture from The Southern California biography of his father for Rizzoli International Publications, Edward Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He’s worked with some of today’s leading Durell Stone: A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect. architects, including many AIA National Gold Medal winners. Michael is a board member of various professional, cultural, conservation, and design organizations.

8 9 Walter Miller, RA has been an important member of the John Portman & Associates Meredith Arms Bzdak, an architectural historian, is a Partner in the Princeton, NJ (Portman) firm since 1987. An accomplished designer and planner, Mr. Miller directs firm Mills + Schnoering Architects, LLC. She has over twenty-five years of experience the design team in resolving how to implement Portman design philosophy and in the field of historic preservation, and has produced numerous documents vision into functional spaces. He has been a guest lecturer and critic at a number pertaining to historic architecture. As Associate Graduate Faculty at Rutgers of prestigious schools, including the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of University in the Art History Department, she teaches classes on the development of Architecture where he oversees administration of the Portman Prize, an award the modern city, the preservation of the recent past, and modern Italian architecture. created for the purpose of encouraging the school’s graduate students to develop She currently serves on the Board of Directors of DOCOMOMO US and DOCOMOMO a holistic design approach that ties the big idea to the small detail. Prior to joining New York/Tri-State and is the author of Public Sculpture in New Jersey; Monuments Portman, Mr. Miller was with the firm of Cesar Pelli & Associates, where he became to Collective Identity. She holds a BA in Art History from Mount Holyoke College and a Senior Designer, responsible for schematic design and design development of a PhD in Art History from Rutgers University. major projects such as the World Financial Center/New York; and the Boyer Medical Bob Meckfessel, FAIA is an activist architect with over 30 years experience in the Research Laboratory building at Yale University. planning and design of award-winning architecture and interiors projects, including mixed-use, retail, office, single/multi-family residential, urban design, and preservation. Beyond Modernism? A debate. He is active in both civic and professional organizations, and has held the position of June 10th – 1:00 PM – DeRoy Audiotrium, Wayne State University President of AIA Dallas, the Dallas Architecture Forum, Trinity Commons Foundation, and Preservation Dallas. He has also served, or is serving, on the boards of the When Docomomo was formed in the late 1980s, the initial focus was on modern Trinity Trust, Texas Society of Architects, the Texas Music Center, the Dallas architecture dating from the period in between the two world wars, and was quickly Architectural Foundation, LaReunion TX, and DOCOMOMO US. Meckfessel lectures expanded in scope to include the post-war period. Now twenty-five years later, we face often on planning and design, serves frequently on awards juries, and writes the next question: should Docomomo extend its period of interest to include the end occasionally. He is a LEED Accredited Professional. He was elevated to Fellowship in of the 20th century and beyond or should it stay true to its original mission and the American Institute of Architects in 2007 and, in 2008, received the Texas Society advocacy solely for what was then defined as modern(ist) heritage? of Architects Award for Community Service in Honor of James D. Pfluger, FAIA.

Katie E. Horak is an architectural historian and historic preservation planner based in Los Angeles, California. A principal at Architectural Resources Group, she leads the office’s preservation planning efforts, which include large-scale historic resources surveys, rehabilitation studies, documentation of significance, and more. Katie is founding President of the Southern California Chapter of Docomomo US and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Southern California, where she teaches introductory and advanced courses on historic site documentation to students pursuing graduate studies in heritage conservation. Lamster Arms Bzdak Meckfessel Horak Arbuckle John Shreve Arbuckle, Assoc. AIA, is President of DOCOMOMO NY/Tri-State. He SPEAKERS has been a board member since the chapter’s incorporation in 2005 and formerly Mark Lamster is the award-winning architectural critic of the Dallas Morning News served on the board of DOCOMOMO US. He was Director of Business Development and a professor in the architecture school at the University of Texas at Arlington. at Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects and an Associate at Beckhard Richlan He has been recognized by the Associated Press for his writing, celebrated for his Szerbaty & Associates, successor to the office of Marcel Breuer. John is the “beautiful mind” by D Magazine, which has named him the best critic in Dallas for immediate past Co-chair of the AIA New York Chapter Historic Buildings Committee. three consecutive years, and lauded for his “sharp analytical eye” by the alt weekly Currently, he organizes and guides tours through Arbuckle Architecture Tours, LLC and Dallas Observer. In 2014, he received the David Dunnigan Media Award from the the AIANY Architecture Tour Committee. He received a BA in Architecture from the Greater Dallas Planning Council. He is the author of several books, and is currently at University of California at Berkeley and studied real estate development at Columbia work on a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, to be published by Little, University. Brown.

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A destination for modern designers and architects throughout the mid-20th century, Michigan is an epicenter for modern design and architecture. Join us for the following tours to get an exclusive look at some of Michigan’s Modern Masterpieces.

FRIDAY, JUNE 10 FR1 – General Motors Technical Center Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Tour Leader: Brian Conway, SHPO This rare tour of Eero Sarrinen’s modern masterpiece offers guests the unique opportunity to view the interiors of both the Design Center, with its famous floating staircase, and the Research Building. General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Recently designed a National Historic Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Photo: Balthazar Landmark, guests will be able to walk along Korab. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. the reflecting pool and iconic stainless steel water tower.

Please note: There is absolutely no photography permitted on the grounds of or inside the General Motors Technical Center. Participants will go through a security check; a photo ID is required. No recording devices of any kind, including cell phones, will be allowed. There is a small possibility that the date and time of this tour may change. Guests on this tour will be picked up at Wayne State and dropped off at the Renaissance Center or back at Wayne State University’s McGregor Memorial Conference Center

FR2 – Yamasaki in the Cultural Center Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Tour Leader: Ken Peterson, Preservation Detroit Detroit-based architect Minoru Yamasaki enjoyed an international reputation for his architectural vision. Locally he designed office buildings, houses of worships, educational institutions, and residences. His legacy includes five buildings located in Detroit’s Cultural Center. Learn more about him and these buildings, in addition to some other modern buildings in the area, on this walking tour. Highlights include: McGregor Memorial Conference Center, 1958, DeRoy Auditorium, 1964, Prentis Building, 1958, Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts Building, 1958.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 11 SA1 – Downtown Detroit’s Modernist Architecture Time: 9:30 PM – 1:00 PM Tour Leaders: Deborah Goldstein, Docomomo US/MI and Rebecca Binno Savage, Detroit Area Art Deco Society

Downtown Detroit is home to some of the Midwest’s most remarkable and varied 20th Century architecture. Locations on Photo: Jack P. Johnson the tour range from the Minoru Yamasaki- designed former Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Building to the Isamu Noguchi-designed Philip A. Hart Plaza to John C. Portman’s Renaissance Center, the symbol of Detroit. The tour will include some interiors, but is mainly an exterior walking tour.

Highlights include: Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Building, Minoru Yamasaki, 1962, Philip A. Hart Plaza, Isamu Noguchi, 1975, Renaissance Center, John Portman, 1973

SA2 – Grosse Pointe Modern Masterpieces Time: 9:30 PM – 1:00 PM The Grosse Pointes developed as an up-scale residential enclave on Lake St. Clair, just minutes from Detroit. Masters of modern architecture and design, including Alexander Girard, Eliel & Eero Saarinen, Alden Dow, Marcel Breuer and Paul Rudolph, created bold, modern Photo: Rob Lubera statements among the mostly traditional community.

Guests on this tour will be picked up and dropped off at the Renaissance Center. Highlights include: John N. McLucas House, Alexander Girard, 1951 , Grosse Pointe Public Library, Marcel Breuer, 1953, Frank and Anne Parcells House, Paul Rudolph, 1970

14 15 Preservation Detroit Walking Tours Time: 10:00 AM Preservation Detroit will offer tours in three areas of Detroit – Downtown, Midtown/ Cultural Center and Eastern Market. Visit PreservationDetroit.org/Tours to purchase tickets.

SA3 – Mid-Century Explodes in Southfield, Michigan Time: 2:30 PM – 6:00 PM Tour Leader: Southfield Mayor Kenson Siver In the 1950s and early 1960s Southfield was Michigan’s fastest growing city. Located on the northwest border of Detroit, developers with big name architects began constructing neighborhoods, commercial Reynolds Aluminum, Southfield buildings, religious edifices and office buildings at a rapid rate. Southfield’s growth spurt was fueled by the opening of America’s first modern shopping mall, Northland, and new freeways.

Guests on this tour will be picked up and dropped off at the Renaissance Center. Highlights include: Reynolds Aluminum, Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, 1959 Congregation Shares Zedek Synagogue, Albert Kahn & Associates, 1963

SA4 – Tour Lafayette Park Time: 2:30 PM – 6:00 PM Tour Leader: Neil McEachern Lafayette Park was planned as a large, post-war modernist housing development just east of downtown. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe collaborated with urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer and landscape architect Alfred Caldwell to create this “suburb in the city,” and Detroit’s newest National Historic Photo: Jack P. Johnson Landmark.

Highlights include: Lafayette Park Townhouses & Towers, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hiberseimer, 1959-1963, 1300 Lafayette East, Gunnar Birkerts, 1963

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SUNDAY, JUNE 12 SU1 – Ann Arbor, Mid Century Modern Mecca innovate Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Tour Leaders: Grace Shackman, Linda Elert, and Frances Wright, board members of a2modern Ann Arbor has an unusually high number of mid-century modern buildings. The U-M Architecture School championed the style and made impressive post-war Photo: Jack P. Johnson hires including Gunnar Birkerts and Eero Saarinen, who designed, along with many of their graduates, for a population that Appreciate appreciated MCM. The visit will include walking tours and interior visits as well as lunch.

Guests on this tour will be picked up and dropped off at the Renaissance Center. Drop off at the airport may be possible. advocate SU2 – Cranbrook Modern to Contemporary Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Tour Leader: Gregory Wittkopp, Director, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

The beautiful, 319-acre campus of Cranbrook Schools, located in Bloomfield We’re proud to sponsor the Hills, is home to one of the finest Photo: Courtesy of Cranbrook collections of early Modern, mid-century Docomomo US National and contemporary architecture. Designed by world-renowned Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, the Cranbrook campus continues Symposium and its dedication to to develop with a number of fine buildings built during the last two decades. The tour of this National Historic Landmark will explore Cranbrook’s Arts and Crafts heritage, preserving modern architecture. the meticulously restored Saarinen House (1928-30) and recent buildings by Rafael Moneo, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Steven Holl, and Peter Rose. Guests on this tour will be picked up and dropped off at the Renaissance Center. 799 Ninth Street NW Drop off at the airport may be possible. Washington, DC nixonpeabody.com @Nixonpeabodyllp

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Henry J. Guthard Founding principal and former executive vice president of Minoru Yamasaki and Associates, Inc.

Henry J. Guthard was an intern at Smith Hinchman & Grylls when Minoru Yamasaki began there in the mid-1940s. Yama invited Henry to join him when he established his own firm in the mid-50s, beginning his four decade long career as a design engineer, director of engineering, and director of projects management. Yama put great faith in him; Henry was a young engineer when he served as the director of engineering on the McGregor project, and he was appointed by Yamasaki to serve as business manager of the original New York World Trade Center project. In tune with Yamasaki’s sensibility of bringing tranquility into his designs, Guthard specialized in the graceful blending of structural, mechanical and electrical engineering systems into the architectural concepts of Yama’s buildings worldwide. Not only were the two business partners, they and their families were close friends. Always willing to share his experiences with the master architect, Henry J. Guthard is a treasure to the community of those learning and writing about Yamasaki. Adler Schnee Guthard

Ruth Adler Schnee Pioneering textile and environmental designer, vanguard of post-war modernism Ruth Adler Schnee is an internationally recognized textile designer, who has been Welcome to Southfield! called a “Detroit treasure” and an “American legacy.” Along with her family, Schnee fled Nazi Germany soon after Kristalnacht, and settled in Detroit. Adler Schnee was During the 1960s, Southfield was one tutored at an early age by the artist Paul Klee, later studied under Walter Gropius of Michigan’s fastest growing cities – at Harvard, and went on to earn her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. resulting in an amazing collection of In 1945, Ruth won the Condè Nast Prix de Paris, taking her to industrial designer Mid-Century Modern homes, commercial Raymond Loewy’s New York City office. Returning to Detroit, Ruth attended Cranbrook buildings and religious institutions that were designed by top local and Academy of Art, becoming the first woman to earn a graduate degree in architecture internationally renowned architects such there. Unable to find work because of her gender, she took Eliel Saarinen’s advice as Minoru Yamasaki, Victor Gruen, and entered competitions, winning the Chicago Tribune’s 1946 residential design Gunnar Birkerts, Louis Redstone and Percival Goodman. competition. Finding no suitable contemporary fabrics for the furnishings for her modernist entry, she launched a career in custom textile design. With her late From the City’s abundance of beautiful husband Edward, Ruth ran the Adler-Schnee stores in Detroit, among the first in the Mid-Century Modern architecture to the country to sell modern furniture and fabrics. state-of-the-art Southfield Public Library – Southfield has all amenities you would Ruth Adler Schnee collaborated with many great architects and designers of the expect from a world-class municipality in addition to the unique features that modern era – Eero Saarinen, Buckminster Fuller, Minoru Yamasaki, Frank Lloyd only Southfield can offer. The City of Wright, Alexander Girard, George Nelson, and Charles and Ray Eames. She has Southfield is truly a great place to live, received numerous awards throughout her career including the Kresge Foundation work and raise a family! Eminent Artist award in 2015. Ruth lives in Southfield and is still creating bold, colorful designs in her home studio.

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