Film: Visions of Utopia

We saw the premiere of this 80 min. documentary as part of Modernism week in Palm Springs. It traced the sotires of the architects behind the mid-century buildings here.It was really quite wonderful to see it here and some of the architects like Donald Wexler were there along with the producers, etc. Very well done and I hope we can eventually buy a DVD of it. The architecture here continues to respect these values of using natural materials, fitting into the landscape and keeping a low profile so as not to hide the wonderful mountain views everywhere. Signs are so incredibly small and poorly illuminated (even Macdonalds) that it's difficult to find things...a small price to pay. The character has been preserved largely because Palm Springs was in a downslide for decades so things didn't get torn down and replaced with montrosities. Now there is a real sense of valuing and preserving the historic.