Austin Modern at the Westgate Tower

Mid Tex Mod worked closely with the National Trust for Historic Preservation to host home tours and cocktails at the Westgate Tower.

The Westgate Tower was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places just a couple of days before the event. Approximately 300 attendees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation conference came to this celebration of a newly minted landmark and of modernism and recent past preservation.

Read more about the Westgate Tower on PreservationNation.

View photos from the event on Flickr.com.

Many thanks to the National Trust for Historic Preservation Western Regional Office and Modernism + Recent Past Program, Mid Tex Mod volunteers, the UT Student Historic Preservation Association, and other sponsors of this event.

The University of Texas at Austin Student Historic Preservation Association and Mid Tex Mod are pleased to invite you to strap on some rented shoes and have a ball at Highland Lanes!

It's bowling night! Please join us Friday, October 1st from 7-9 PM for some mid-century style fun.

Cost is $12.50 per person (includes shoe rental)

Highland Lanes is located at 8909 Burnet Road, just south of the 183 overpass.

Please RSVP to akcpntr@gmail.com so we can get an idea of how many lanes will be needed.

For more information about Highland Lanes, please visit: http://www.highlandlanes.com/hl/index.htm

New Geo Dome and Film Screening Event

Geo Affair

July 24, 2010 at 06:00 PM
This weekend in Taylor, Texas at the Zidell House in celebration of the recently completed Geodescic structure and to help the revitalization of Robinson Park. Included in the festivities will be a screening of "A Necessary Ruin," filmmaker Evan Mather’s documentary capturing the life and death of visionary F. Buckminster Fuller's Union Tank Car Dome in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Set on six acres, The Zidell House property features courts for Bocce, Pétanque, and Horseshoes, all within earshot of the stage. The Resistance Ensemble, Edward Burch, Frank Smith, and The Happen-Ins, are all playing for the occasion. Several local food and drink providers will be on hand as well.

The event will also feature two video installations by acclaimed Swedish sensation Sven Broden, a dance performance from Ghostbuster by the Weed.

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