Tulsa Art Deco Event

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An Invitation from the National Trust for Historic Preservation: Learn more about Tulsa's unique architecture and the Preservation Conference in Tulsa this fall!

Join us with the Tulsa Art Deco Society and the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture to celebrate Tulsa with the premier of the July/August issue of Preservation Magazine, featuring Tulsa's historic art deco architecture.

The event will include remarks from Tulsa Art Deco Society President Rex Ball, FAIA AICP, Tulsa Foundation for Architecture Board President Matt King, AIA NCARB and Preservation's editor in chief, James Schwartz.

Learn more about the upcoming National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference in Tulsa Oct. 21-25 and local community events with the Tulsa Art Deco Society and the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture.

Want to be involved? Come to this Event:

When: Tuesday, June 24, 5:30 p.m.
Where: The Philcade Lobby, 509 South Boston Ave.
 
Light refreshements will be served. This event is free and open to the public, so bring a friend!

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You can read the article from Preservation here:

http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2008/july-august/tulsas.html

quote:It may come as a surprise to learn that Tulsa is one of the nation's premier centers of art deco architecture, putting it in the classy company of Miami Beach, New York, and Los Angeles. The style was hugely popular here from the outset and remained so through several evolutions—as the geometrically ornamented structures of the 1920s gave way to the simpler and more heroic public architecture of the Great Depression and then to the sleek streamline moderne of the later 1930s. Over the course of a four-day visit, I walked through downtown and drove along outlying streets, taking in the full range—from the brightly colored terra-cotta panels of the 1929 Warehouse Market to the curved glass-block corners of the 1942 City Veterinary Hospital.

Very good article.  Tulsa should be proud.