Discover Mid-Century Modern Architecture with this Virtual Movie Experience in MIdland
The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio is bringing their regular Movie Sundays events online for patrons to interact via zoom while learning about the history of Mid-Century Modern Architecture, and those that influenced it from Midland, Michigan. Check out these upcoming movie dates and time, which include live narration along with an intermission and plenty of time for questions on Alden Dow’s films.
Register online by visiting www.abdow.org, $15 per household.
February 28, 2021
Construction, Taliesin West and Nature
This series highlights Alden B. Dow’s favorite subjects: architecture, nature and people. The first two films feature the detailed construction of Mr. Dow’s experimental hyperbolic paraboloid, known as the Bay Gas Station, and the Carras Residence developed as the Dow Test House. Next we will travel to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. In this 1945 film, Alden B. Dow captures the natural beauty of the desert and sequences of Frank Lloyd Wright and his family. This series wraps up with a nature film with Alden B. Dow taking us from the blowing snow of winter, to the crocuses and apple blossoms of spring, to a summer storm blowing in over Higgins Lake.
March 14, 2021
Travel Through Time
A long-time favorite film at the Home and Studio is Snow Hill, 1925, featuring extended Dow family sledding in Revere Park and transitions to Herbert H. Dow handing out fruit to his grandchildren in the orchard. We are then transported to the 1967 Montreal World’s Fair featuring Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome. As Alden and Vada Dow travel home from Canada they stop off in Northern Michigan and the Interlochen Campus. After intermission we’ll explore Alden B. Dow’s Midland Architecture during the 1960s, including the Midland Community Center, residential designs and religious structures. As a finale we experience the fun and playfulness of the Dow Chemical Company’s Field Day, c.1939.
