Architecture Tours by Modernism Week


Seasonal tours run October 2025 - May 2026

A midcentury modern style home in Palm Springs with Mt. San Jacinto in the background
Architecture Tours by Modernism Week

The Ultimate Modernist Home Tour in Palm Springs

While Palm Springs is filled with stunning architecture, finding the most iconic examples, and learning their stories, can be a challenge. Architecture Tours by Modernism Week offers the most comprehensive and deepest introduction to this unique concentration of modern homes and buildings. Let by expert guides curated by top-rated tour operator Trevor O’Donnell, our small group tours are perfect scholars, architects, design professionals, architecture buffs, and those curious about what makes Palm Springs’ modern architecture so extraordinary. No matter who you are, you’ll find plenty to love on this tour.

Scheduled 22-seat mini-coach tours are offered October through May. Tickets on sale soon.

Experience Palm Springs Modernism with the Team Who Knows It Best

Palm Springs has a large, passionately engaged community of modern architecture enthusiasts, homeowners, preservationists, designers, scholars, and tourism professionals. Within this world, Modernism Week and PS Architecture Tours are respected leaders, having designed and offered high-quality tour experiences for thousands of visitors for more than 20 years. If you’re looking for the most authoritative, least ‘touristy’ way to experience the Palm Springs’ history and its extraordinary modern buildings, Architecture Tours by Modernism Week is your best option. We know our stuff, and we can’t wait to share it with you!

Front walkway leading up to the blue front door of a midcentury modern home in Palm Springs with Mt. San Jacinto in the background

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What Makes Architecture Tours by Modernism Week a Must-Do in Palm Springs

At Architecture Tours by Modernism Week, we believe that context is king and great stories make the tour. Your Palm Springs modern architecture tour begins with a brief introduction to the city’s fascinating origins, and where modern architecture fits into its quirky, boom-and-bust history. Next, you’ll board a comfortable, climate-controlled mini-coach that’s perfect for this modern architecture tour in Palm Springs. Just 22 seats, no microphones, no headsets, no loudspeakers. Think of it as a travelling master class in modernism, augmented by hundreds of vivid, real-live examples, and plenty of fascinating, often humorous, stories about the people who made it all happen. Click here to learn more about what you'll see on the tour.

Architecture Tours by Modernism Week takes you on a tour across Palm Springs. Home to one of the largest concentrations of fine modernist homes and buildings in the world.

Tickets for the upcoming October-May season on sale soon.