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Category Archives: Modern Architecture

NCA&T’s Architectural Engineering Program Holds Deep Roots

Architecture, Greensboro History, Modern Architecture, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsNovember 23, 2022

The architecturally progressive and ambitious designs provided by the faculty and graduates of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T) in the mid-20th century are increasingly taking center stage…

Split Levels and Ranches: Random Woods Typifies the 1960s

Architecture, City Planning, Greensboro History, Modern ArchitectureBy Benjamin BriggsMarch 25, 2022

The Random Woods neighborhood occupies a gentle valley located between two ridges marked by Fairfax Road to the west and Merritt Drive to the east. True to Greensboro planning traditions,…

Urban Renewal: What Were They Thinking?

Architecture, City Planning, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Lost Greensboro, Modern Architecture, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsJanuary 31, 2022

From the perspective of those living in the twenty-first century, a community reinvestment plan that entails the destruction of the focus neighborhood seems to be a contradiction in terms. How…

Historic Preservation for Improved Social Equity

Architecture, City Planning, Community Investment, Greensboro History, Modern Architecture, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsJuly 6, 2020

Historic preservation has served a central role in American history, and over the past 30 years, it held an increasingly relevant role in preserving sites of Black history in Greensboro.…

Old Guilford County Courthouse Celebrates a Century of Service

Architecture, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation News, Modern ArchitectureBy Benjamin BriggsMay 28, 2020

The Guilford County Courthouse celebrates 100 years in 2020. Due to associations with military history, it is perhaps the most famous courthouse by name in the world, but the Greensboro…

The Secrets of Nocho Park, Clinton Hills, and Benbow Park

Architecture, City Planning, Greensboro History, Modern Architecture, Secrets of..., Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsMarch 19, 2020

East Greensboro is a constellation of neighborhoods, many with a spectrum of African American connections. However, the heart of East Greensboro is within a triangle of seminal institutions including North…

A&T’s Amazing Architectural Legacy

Architecture, Greensboro History, Modern Architecture, Social EquityBy Benjamin BriggsMarch 14, 2019

Most in Greensboro celebrate the fact that North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T) is the largest historically black university in the nation, and most recognize it is a…

Living Large: The Rise of Modern Apartments in Greensboro, Part III

Architecture, City Planning, Greensboro History, Modern ArchitectureBy Benjamin BriggsSeptember 19, 2018

The third of a three-part series reviewing the history of apartment housing in Greensboro. By 1940, Greensboro was evolving from a small city to a regional industrial and insurance center…

‘New Wine in an Old Bottle’ Preservation

Architecture, Modern ArchitectureBy Benjamin BriggsDecember 29, 2017

From time to time, historic places can find reinvention through adaptive reuse that extends their utility into new capacities. Greensboro’s Cultural Center is an excellent example of this “new wine in…

Iconic Irving Park Mid-Century Modern Goes on Tour

Architecture, Greensboro History, Modern Architecture, Tour of Historic HomesBy Benjamin BriggsMay 3, 2016

The Katherine and Sidney J. Stern House at 1804 Nottingham Road was built around 1955-56 to designs drawn by Edward Loewenstein. One of Greensboro’s best examples of Mid-Century Modern architecture,…

Greensboro and the Concrete Jungle

Architecture, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation News, Modern ArchitectureBy Benjamin BriggsDecember 3, 2015

Greensboro is best known – in architectural circles – for its flagship Italian Villa-style Blandwood Mansion, its signature Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Skyscraper, and its Art Deco-style Kress and Woolworth…

Walter Gropius in the Gate City

Architecture, Greensboro History, Greensboro Preservation News, Modern Architecture, TravelBy Benjamin BriggsOctober 2, 2015

“Less is More” is the well-known edict of the German design school Bauhaus, and Walter Gropius was Bauhaus’s founder. In Greensboro, one building is attributed to the world famous designer…

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