The City of Boulder experienced substantial growth in the decades following World War II, and it has been blessed with the services
of good architects who designed residential, commercial and institutional buildings in a typically modern style.
Some of it survives,
and for those so inclined the city's streets make up a free museum of architectural delights. Many of these you pass every day if
you live or work here; others require some serendipity. Click around here, then look around town when you have the
time.
Let me know if you have corrections or something to add-a few statements or an entire page with your name attached.
Boulder Modern House:
Mid-century architecture in Boulder, Colorado
Hobart D. Wagener: First United Methodist Church at 14th & Spruce: hyperbolic paraboloid roofs
Thin shells . . .
folded plates, Z-shells, hyperbolic paraboloids: Hoby Wagener, 20th century innovation, and Boulder. Here are a few of his contributions, and only the beginning of his story.
folded plates, Z-shells, hyperbolic paraboloids: Hoby Wagener, 20th century innovation, and Boulder. Here are a few of his contributions, and only the beginning of his story.
Denver Modern Links!
There is amazing architecture in Denver, and here are a couple of excellent links:
There is amazing architecture in Denver, and here are a couple of excellent links:
Tom Lundin's site, ModMidMod
Todd
Carpenter's: DenMod
On the National Register of Historic Places:
Casey Middle School is being demolished as of late February 2009. Here are two photographs of the remains of Hoby Wagener's addition of 1954-55. In the middle photo you can see the remains of the southernmost folded plate, one of six that spanned the cafeteria. The sections to the east, which had been outside of the image on the left, spanned 56 feet over the gym. On the floor plate for the second level, notice the thickened areas around the support columns.
Left: Casey in 2008. Middle and right: Casey on February 25, 2009