We've teamed up with Modernism Week
​to produce the definitive architecture tour experience in Palm Springs!


​PS Architecture Tours and Modernism Week - Palm Springs’ leading providers of high-quality architectural tour services - have teamed up to provide the ultimate modern architecture tour experience.

These new mini-coach tours will resume in November and run through May, 2023. Tickets are on sale now. 

The perfect blend of Trevor O’Donnell’s intimate small van tours and Modernism Week’s popular double-decker coach tours, these tours are designed to offer an in-depth introduction to the city’s fascinating past and its rare concentration of fine modernist homes and buildings. No microphones. No headsets. Just a friendly traveling conversation about a remarkable city.

You’ll join a small group of fellow architecture and design fans for an excursion through Palm Springs' most beautiful neighborhoods - pausing along the way to learn about outstanding works by some of America’s most talented modernist designers. You'll also hear about Hollywood celebrities who made many of these homes famous, and enjoy back stories that add depth and humanity to Palm Springs' amazing modernist legacy.

We’re proud to share this tour series with Modernism Week, which is a community supported nonprofit dedicated to education, preservation and appreciation of modern architecture and design in Palm Springs. When you choose these tours, you’re not only choosing the best, you’re helping to preserve and promote great architecture for generations to come.
​"We had a fabulous time in Palm Springs but it wouldn't have been half the trip if we hadn't taken this tour with Trevor. It set the context for our entire visit and got us in the "Palm Springs" frame of mind. Trevor is conscientious, polite, personable and so interesting. I was worried that such a tour might be too touristy but it was in depth and entertaining. Thanks from Southern Alberta!!."

About Trevor O'Donnell

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Tripadvisor's top-rated architectural tour guide, Trevor O'Donnell is a lifelong architecture buff, designer, preservation advocate and modernism enthusiast. Trevor fell in love with Palm Springs when he restored a classic 1958 post & beam in the Deepwell Estates neighborhood. He is always working on a 1952 house that was home to architect Richard Harrison, one of Palm Springs' most celebrated modernists, and he recently completed restoration projects in the Joshua Tree area north of Palm Springs and in Saugatuck, Michigan. Today, Trevor shares his passion for architecture and deep knowledge of the region's history and design with visiting architects, design professionals, scholars, midcentury modern fans and curious visitors from all over the world. Visit Tripadvisor for candid reviews of Trevor's tours.

Banner photo: Iconic Palm Springs "butterfly" tract home, 1957, designed by William Krisel and Dan Palmer for the George Alexander Construction Co.