Hudson modern : residential landscapes Hudson Modern showcases stunning new houses in the Hudson River Valley that embrace the dramatic settings and cultural bounty of this popular region. As the birthplace of American landscape painting the Hudson River Valley has long been a refuge from the city and a laboratory for new aesthetic expression. Today thanks to its ascendant reputation as a weekend utopia architects are extending that tradition into the built environment. Designing residences that revere local climate landscape and history in a distinctly modernist language these talents are sowing a new Hudson River school of architectural thought