See 2 Iconic Modernist Neighborhoods on the East and West Coasts

Twin Palms and Six Moon Hill have fostered resilient communities and passionate architecture fans for over 70 years.

Palm Springs, California, is synonymous with low-slung midcentury modern homes designed by some of history’s biggest names in architecture. Twin Palms, a development of 90 iconic homes by William Krisel and Dan Palmer, was the first of its kind in the region. This midcentury modern enclave inspired a design ethos in Palm Springs that continues today.

However, this community was part of an architectural movement much larger than the Coachella Valley. A group of architects in a small town outside Boston was exploring similar ideas at Six Moon Hill, a modernist neighborhood of 29 homes and one of the first of its kind on the East Coast.