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Coming to Terms with Montana’s Modernism: Passing Judgement and Making Sweeping Statements about Modern Architecture

March 5, 2019February 11, 2015 by Bert Carlstrom

You may have noticed Montana’s modernist buildings, especially if you have spent any time around the campuses of the state. Modernist architecture is defined by blocky, flat-roofed buildings with unadorned aluminum beams dividing large pane windows, sometimes in different colors (and following no discernable pattern). Modernism emphasized functionality, and any sort of decoration on building … Read more

When Montana Pretended it was Spanish

March 5, 2019October 10, 2014 by Bert Carlstrom

Oddly, the Baroque gables and adobe walls of Boulder Hot Springs don’t look out of place nestled in the foothills south of Boulder. Something about Montana’s arid landscape lets the Alamo-esque style make sense. A little surprising, perhaps, but not outrageous. One could even assume, based on our state’s name and a number of … Read more

The Clark Fork Farmers’ Market–Missoula, May 24, 2014

February 13, 2015May 27, 2014 by Bert Carlstrom