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On a chance visit to Palm Springs, the author was immediately drawn to the desert gardens and the beautiful lines of the modernist houses from that post-war era. On a chance visit to Palm Springs, the author was immediately drawn to the desert gardens and the beautiful lines of the modernist houses from that post-war era. At once, she fell in love and was lost in the sheer immensity. It was then that she realised that being lost was the beginning of an idea.The idea grew into Lost in Palm Springs, developed over three residencies in Palm Springs bringing together artists, architects, photographers and thinkers from both sides of the Pacific. Creative minds who, on the one hand, capture or reimagine the magical qualities of mid-century modern domestic architecture set within the desert landscape of the Coachella Valley. And on the other hand, artists and photographers from Australia who explore mid-century modern architecture from Mt Eliza near Melbourne to Canberra, from Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast to Sydney. And those who work backwards and forwards across the Pacific building bridges and drawing attention to place. In an era of radical transformation, it is calming, inspiring, and reassuring to lose yourself in the architecture of a dream.

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"""Reading Lost in Palm Springs is like taking awonderful journey through places both far and near, all of which are somehowrendered intimate and known by the skill of our guide, and master flaneur, DrGreer Honeywill. The work centres around the desert city of Palm Springs, acity so coloured by the hope and optimism of not just a great number of the midcentury's most notable architects, but also that of a nation. Importantly,Honeywill's work raises questions that have never been more vital for oursociety to consider. Most notably, questions of how we create affordablehousing in a manner that allows it to be produced en masse, but which is also,more importantly, a joy to inhabit, making poetry of the ordinary, day to day. Iam at once overwhelmed by the depth of investigation and wildly motivated toknow more. Thank you to the author for creating a work that celebrates the joyfound in the intersection of art, architecture, and life."" -- ShannonBattisson FRAIA, Australian National President, Australian Institute ofArchitects, Director Architecture, The Mill Architecture + Design"

""Reading Lost in Palm Springs is like taking awonderful journey through places both far and near, all of which are somehowrendered intimate and known by the skill of our guide, and master flaneur, DrGreer Honeywill. The work centres around the desert city of Palm Springs, acity so coloured by the hope and optimism of not just a great number of the midcentury's most notable architects, but also that of a nation. Importantly,Honeywill's work raises questions that have never been more vital for oursociety to consider. Most notably, questions of how we create affordablehousing in a manner that allows it to be produced en masse, but which is also,more importantly, a joy to inhabit, making poetry of the ordinary, day to day. Iam at once overwhelmed by the depth of investigation and wildly motivated toknow more. Thank you to the author for creating a work that celebrates the joyfound in the intersection of art, architecture, and life."" -- ShannonBattisson FRAIA, Australian National President, Australian Institute ofArchitects, Director Architecture, The Mill Architecture + Design

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Dr. Greer Honeywill is an award-winning Australian writer and conceptual artist, curator, researcher and scholar based in Melbourne. She holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash University, Melbourne (2003) for which she was awarded the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for academic excellence, and a PhD in Fine Art from the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania (2015). For more than three decades, Honeywill's interdisciplinary practice has embraced writing, installation, constructed objects, architecture, text, performance, photography and video. The domestic built form, sense of place, and the inescapable patterns of everyday existence have long been the prime focus of her writing, art practice, and research. Greer Honeywill is the curator of an interdisciplinary exhibition titled Lost in Palm Springs. The exhibition opened at the new HOTA (Home of the Arts) gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland, in March 2023.

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