February 2009
Edifice Architects announced the launch of the Modern Heritage Project, a regional initiative designed to pay homage to modern design within the Inland Empire and preserve it from destruction.
The Modern Heritage project will educate, develop, and raise awareness of the modern movement.
Edifice plans to locate and identify mid-century commercial and residential buildings.
The Claremont-based firm invites the public to participate and help find these structures.
"This project aims to preserve modern buildings and advocates modern and contemporary architecture," Edifice Co-Founder Ignacio Sardinas said.
"I find it deplorable that in many cities in the Inland Empire, it is perfectly acceptable to destroy a significant example of mid-century design with no repercussion."
"Someone needs to champion and support these structures," Edifice Co-Founder Hirohito Kuroki said.
"Modern architecture is a part of Southern California; it showed the optimistic spirit of the designers of that era experimenting with new forms and materials and methods of construction."
"Later-generation modernist architects include Lautner, Neutra, Schindler, and Ellwood who practiced in Southern California", Kuroki continued.
Patrons such as Eichler and Entanza encouraged and promoted modernism, creating projects, case study programs and development tracts in the movement.
Edifice hopes to evolve projects and thinking within the region that support those same values of modernism.
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