CHOC Monarch Apartment Homes architect Maria Song, AIA, LEED AP—whose Interactive Design Corporation portfolio includes award-winning real estate developments—was invited by the Palm Springs Architectural Alliance to participate in Fast Forward 2/Designing the Future of Palm Springs. Led by award winning and nationally known architects and designers, Fast Forward kicks off February 1st, as part of Palm Springs' internationally acclaimed Modernism Week. This 7-part virtual program is produced by the Palm Springs Architectural Alliance. Access and purchase the full PSAA suite of programming, and all Modernism Week online offerings, at Modernism Week.

Modernism Week is a preeminent event on the global architectural design calendar. Since 2006, Modernism Week has fostered "an appreciation of midcentury architecture and design, as well as contemporary thinking in these fields, by encouraging education, preservation and sustainable modern living as represented in the greater Palm Springs area."

In these videos, Maria details how the affordable housing process works; the intricacies of funding, the absolute need for beautifully designed, economically integrated housing and how communities benefit when working families have an affordable place to call home.

CHOC Monarch Apartment Homes

Renderings of CHOC’s Monarch Apartment Homes by Interactive Design Corporation

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CHOC’s participation in Modernism Week also includes Fast Forward 1, a virtual Fall preview held on October 15-18, 2020. This online panel discussion featured Maria’s views on the challenges associated with affordable housing development, but how great community and resident outcomes are possible when it this housing is beautifully designed.

Visit Maria Song’s PSAA bio.