JetModern
Seth Tinkham at Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, CT.
Armed with JetBlue’s 30-day All-You-Can-Jet Pass and a laptop, roving National Trust for Historic Preservation correspondent Seth Tinkham embarked upon his ambitious JetModern project on September 8. A comprehensive survey documenting the state of preservation of America’s modern-era resources, Tinkham's 11-city JetModern journey across the United States will allow him to visit some of the nation’s finest examples of modern design while discovering local architectural treasures in each destination.
Don't let Seth get lonely on the road or in the skies! Using the schedule below, follow him as he makes his way through our nation's new architectural history and let him know where to go and what to see while he's in town. Also, watch his Twitter updates to get more information about surprise Tweetups (an in-person gathering of Tweeters) in select cities.
Seth's Jet Set Schedule
- Houston, TX – September 16-18
- Salt Lake City, UT – September 18-22
- Seattle, WA – September 22-24
- San Francisco, CA – September 24-26
- Las Vegas, NV – September 27-29
- Los Angeles, CA – September 29-October 2
- Orlando, FL - October 2-4
JetModern on the PreservationNation Blog
JetModern: Preservation in Los Angeles
My visit to Los Angeles coincided with the first of a series of lectures and panel discussions sponsored by the National Trust and the LA Conservancy. Called Modern Modules, these programs will be taking place across the country over the next nine months. Each event consists of two parts: a public lecture and an invited [...]
JetModern: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas
Las Vegas, according to University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) professor Janet White, is a “suburb with no ‘urb.’” It is a city with few urban areas and many suburban features crowded together. Andy Kirk, another professor at UNLV and director of Preserve Nevada, noted that Las Vegas grew from roughly 80,000 [...]
JetModern: Tweetup, Tiki Style
My stay in San Francisco included another Tweetup, this time held at the Tonga Room. The Tonga Room is the Tiki bar and restaurant at the Fairmont Hotel (1906). Complete with floating bandstand and half-hourly rainfall with thunderstorm, the lounge appears relatively intact and true to its late 1960s update on an early 50s-adopted Tiki [...]
@JetModern on Twitter 
- JetModern: Many thanks to all who supported this project. - 10/16/09
- JetModern: The National Trust conference is over and so is @JetModern, but follow @TrustModern for future news. - 10/16/09
- JetModern: JetModern wraps up today in Nashville, 3:45 pm. at NTHP conference (coffee included, I believe) #presconf #aycj - 10/15/09
- JetModern: Meet me at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference in Nashville, I'll be on a modern panel Thursday #presconf #aycj - 10/12/09
- JetModern: Met with Central Florida Modern to talk about the Round Building. Pics in blog. Jet Modern now off to Colombia. - 10/06/09
- JetModern: Orlando has a brutalist library (1986)?!? - 10/06/09
- JetModern: @AtomicIndy Thanks for writing about @JetModern on your blog. Little change of plans and am now heading to Orlando for Florida MCM. #AYCJ - 10/05/09
- JetModern: Jet Modern is taking a week break in Bogota. More from Nashville. Thanks to all. - 10/02/09
- JetModern: @HistoricShed I twitter & preserve. - 10/01/09
- JetModern: @AtomicIndy Hey, thanks! I'm doing what I can. I suspect many of us are. - 10/01/09
