Modern Tide (2012)

When much of Long Island was still farmland before it was cool before the hordes of summer beachgoers clogged the roads before building lots sold for seven figures writers artists musicians and architects discovered its beauty and solitude and began to build summer cottages and yearround homes Design Onscreen recently released Modern Tide Midcentury Architecture on Long Island an 86minute documentary film by Jake Gorst about the times places and people that converged to create lively free experimental designs for mostly modest houses that sit lightly on their sites Its also a lament against their wanton destruction and a plea to preserve whats left Modernism Magazine Fall 2012