Architecture and Design Links: (links have not been updated since about 2008)

Recent Past Preservation Network

• reCyclorama: The Campaign to Save Richard Neutra's Cyclorama at Gettysburg. An advocacy group seeking to preserve the Mission 66 Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania.
• Richard and Dion Neutra, architects. Richard Neutra, working with Robert Alexander, designed the Gettysburg National Military Park Visitor Center and Cyclorama in Pennsylvania as well as the Petrified Forest National Park Visitor Center in Arizona. Dion Neutra coordinates preservation efforts of historic Neutra buildings using this site. This is the only web site dedicated to Neutra's unique and innovative designs.
• Anshen + Allen, architects, designers of the Dinosaur National Monument Visitor Center in Utah. The firm, established in 1940, continues to operate with offices in four cities.
  • Anshen + Allen, begun by Bob Anshen and Steve Allen, created a number of small, modern homes for the developer Joseph Eichler in the 1950s in California. Eichler also hired the firms of Jones & Emmons and Claude Oakland. The popular homes are covered by a host of web sites created by dedicated owners and afficionados:
    • The Eichler Network
    • Eichler Homes Realty
    • Southern California Eichler Home Page
      • Kirkwood, in Orange, California, designed by Anshen and Allen.
    • Our Home, a personal site created by an enthusiastic Eichler homeowner.
    • The Eichler Zone

Other Interesting Modern Sites:

• Post-War Portfolio: Robert Royston. The mid-century landscape designs of Robert Royston, a Bay Area landscape architect, designer, and educator. Site by JC Miller.
• Doo Wop Preservation League. The DWPL educational mission is to foster awareness and appreciation of the popular culture and imagery of the 1950's and 1960's and to promote the preservation of the largest collection of Doo Wop architecture found in the United States.
• The Eames Office: covering the designs of Charles and Ray Eames.
• Jetset: Designs for Modern Living A collection of items from the "Pop-culture Archaeologist."
• Modern Home. Purchase collectibles, books, and furniture from the mid twentieth century.
• Twentieth Century Designs. Another site for purchasing relics from the middle years.
• RETRO: The Magazine of Classic 20th Century Popular Culture, a free online magazine covering the first seventy-five years of the twentieth century.
• Deco-Echoes, companion web site for a print magazine focusing on Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, Biomorphic 50s and Abstract 60s styles.
• Society for Commercial Archaeology, dedicated to investigating and preserving twentieth century commercial landscapes

National Park Service and related sites:

• National Park Service home page.