George Smart
Mr. Modernism: Sharing and Saving America's Wealth of Mid-Century Modern Architecture
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George Smart is an accidental archivist. From a late night Google search in 2007, his small but intrepid nonprofit staff and volunteers have built the largest open digital archives for residential mid-century Modernist design in the world. George is founder and Executive Director of USModernist ® and NCModernist ®, nonprofit organizations for the documentation, preservation, and promotion of Modernist design with 15 national, state, and local awards.
DWELL called George the Lorax of Modernist houses. He received the 2016 AIA Institute Honors for Collaborative and Professional Achievement, one of the AIA's highest honors for a non-architect. He is a frequent speaker at design, real estate, and architecture organizations including Palm Springs Modernism Week, the New York School of Interior Design, and WestEdge.
George is Producer and Host of the podcast USModernist Radio, named by DWELL as the #2 architecture and design podcast, with guests including Daniel Libeskind, Moshe Safdie, Josh Ramus, Tom Kundig, Paul Goldberger, Jake Gorst, Alan Hess, Larry Scarpa, Frances Anderton, Kyle Bergman, Tim Ross, Hicks Stone, Chris Rawlins, Harry Bates, Allison Arieff, Alison Brooks, Eric Lloyd Wright, Kelly Lynch, Eames Demetrios, Raymond and Dion Neutra, Susan and Eric Saarinen, Alexandra Lange, Nathanial Kahn, Kate Wagner, and Sarah Susanka, among many others. He has written for Atomic Ranch magazine and travels from Raleigh/Durham NC. He is @mr.modernism on Instagram.