What is Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH)?
TMH is the website for Triangle Modernist Archive, Inc., a North Carolina nonprofit organization committed to documenting, preserving, and promoting modernist architecture. TMH is an award-winning educational archive of hundreds of cool Triangle houses and their architects to remember and revive the area’s legacy of great architecture. We host popular Modernist house tours, movies, and trips, giving the public access to the most exciting residential architecture, past and present. Our events raise awareness, connect people with great design, and help preserve these exceptional “works of art” for future generations. What is a Modernist house? Modernist design is characterized by features such as combining traditionally separate common areas (like the living room and the dining room, for example), open interior floor plans with vaulted ceilings, large and numerous windows, flat or low pitched roofs, long exposed beams, extensive use of glass to bring in natural light, and aesthetic geome