Written on 1/3/20 by Erik Rosenow, past President of the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation
While mid-century architects in Palm Springs such as Donald Wexler, William Cody, and Albert Frey have been celebrated for years, it was only recently that Hugh Kaptur’s work began to share the spotlight. Beginning his career with the firm of Wexler – Harrison and quickly departing on his own, Kaptur is the last living architect of the canon that practiced in that era.
2019 began with a one-two punch of Kaptur-mania. The Palm Springs Art Museum’s Architecture and Design Center hosted the exhibition “Hugh Kaptur: Organic Desert Architecture” while the Palm Springs Preservation Foundation published Steven Keylon’s tome The Modern Architecture of Hugh
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