Dan Saxon Palmer, designer of the Tract Home
“Alex we’ll take Dan’s and Moderism for $1,000 please.” The Answer is…
By way of Market-Day Daily World News comes that Dan Saxon Palmer, an architect who designed Modernist tract homes for Southern California in the 1950s, has died in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 86.
Aye, tis Dan you can thank for those lovely homes you and your friends grew up in.
Palmer and his partner William Krisel began designing the “Modernist” homes, which featured post-and-beam construction with lots of glass and open floor plans that connected the living room, dining room and kitchen, in 1950. The buildings featured clean, simple lines on the inside and outside of the buildings.
“They took on one of the great problems of Modernism, which was to create good, decent contemporary housing that was affordable for the masses,” architectural historian Alan Hess said. “Palmer and Krisel did it, and on a large scale and keeping the inherent qualities of Modernism.”
Remember to take the architectural tour next time you find yourself wandering LA.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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