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Iconic Houses in the Media
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Our Badge of Honour
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Photo Report City Icons Amsterdam
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Modernism Week Lecture: 12 Years of Iconic Houses
Aluminaire House Grand Opening
Exhibition Icons of the Czech Avant-Garde
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SPECIAL – Iconic Dreams Europe - Sleep in an Iconic House!
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SPECIAL – Dutch Delights!
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Iconic Houses in The Netherlands - 100 Years Van Zessen House
Exclusive Tour and Film Screening Package
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Icons of the Czech Avantgarde
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Iconic Houses in The Netherlands - Van Eesteren House Museum
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Movie Night: Adolf Loos- Revolutionary Among Architects
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'Inside Iconic Houses' - Online Tour Program
Iconic Houses in The Netherlands - The Diagoon House
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Rietveld Houses Owners Association
Corberó Space: New Life for Hidden Jewel
Iconic Houses in The Netherlands - Pierre Cuypers' House and Workshops
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Test Labs for New Ideas - Interview with Natascha Drabbe
Inside Iconic Houses - Isokon Building
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A Life Less Ordinary – Interview with Valentijn Carbo
Invisible Women - Interview with Alice T. Friedman
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Anita Blom on Experimental Housing of the 1970s
Women’s Worlds - Interview with Natalie Dubois
The Culture of Living - Interview with Robert von der Nahmer
Hetty Berens: A Fresh Take on Modernism
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How a Building Tells a Story - Recorded Event
Toolkit for Owners of a Modern House
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Exhibiting & Visiting Modernist Monuments
Fostering Well-Researched Responsible Design
ICONS AT RISK
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Exhibition 'Modernism and Refuge'
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An Online Chronicle of the Douglas House
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Sponsors and Friends
An Afternoon with the Glucks
Chandler McCoy on Making Modern Houses Sustainable
Catherine Croft: Getting Away from the Demolition Mentality in the UK
Patrick Weber on Discovering an Unknown Icon
Fiona Fisher on Iconic Interiors
Jocelyn Bouraly on Villa Cavrois
Mireia Massagué on finding success through a new kind of partnership
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Lecture report: Remembering Richard Neutra
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Iconic Reads
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An Iconic Saga
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Modernism on the East Coast
Iconic Houses in Latin America
Conference testimonials
House Tours May 2018
Expert Meetings
Natascha Drabbe - Iconic Houses: The Next Chapter
Terence Riley -KEYNOTE SPEAKER- on Philip Johnson
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Hilary Lewis on Philip Johnson and his Glass House
John Arbuckle on Great House Tours
William D. Earls on the Harvard Five in New Canaan
Stover Jenkins on Working for Philip Johnson
Frederick Noyes on his Father’s House
Scott Fellows and Craig Bassam on their Passion for Preservation
Jorge Liernur -KEYNOTE SPEAKER- on Latin American Modernism(s)
Fabio Grementieri on Modernism in Argentina
Catalina Corcuera Cabezut on Casa Luis Barragán
Renato Anelli on Lina Bo Bardi’s Casa de Vidro
Tim McClimon on Corporate Preservation
Amanda Nelson on Building Donor Relationships
John Bacon on Planned Giving
Jean-Paul Warmoes on the Art of Fundraising in America
Chandler McCoy on Why Less is More
Katherine Malone-France on Moving with the Times
Anne Mette Rahbæk on Philanthropic Investments and Preservation
Peter McMahon on Saving Modern Houses on Cape Cod
Toshiko Kinoshita on Japanese Modern Heritage Houses
Roland Reisley on Life in a Frank Lloyd Wright House
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Behind the Scenes: Hendrick de Keyser Association
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Latin America Special – Focus on Mexico
De Stijl in Drachten
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Meet the Friends - Nanne de Ru
Latin America Special – Focus on Brazil
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Stay in a Belgian Modernist Masterpiece
In Berlin’s Modernist Network
Rietveld-Schröder House Celebrates De Stijl Anniversary
Meet Our New Foundation Board Members
Maintaining Aalto's Studio – Linoleum Conservation
Virtual Tour of a Papaverhof Home in 3D
Getty Grant for Villa E-1027
Plečnik House in Ljubljana
Iconic Dacha
Iconic Houses: A Bohemian Road Trip
Work in Progress: Capricho de Gaudí
11 Le Corbusier Homes now on Unesco World Heritage List
At home with Le Corbusier
Henry van de Velde’s Study in Haus Hohe Pappeln Restored
Lynda Waggoner reports
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Guest of Honor - Harry Gesner
Fallingwater: European Lecture Tour
Wright Plus 2016 Walk
Susan Macdonald, Getty Conservation Institute
John Mcllwee, Garcia House
Meet the Friends – Elisabeth Tostrup
Iconic Houses: The Story So Far
Willie van Burgsteden, designer Iconic Houses
Buff Kavelman, Philanthropic Advisor
Meet the Friends - Frederick Noyes
Sheridan Burke, GML Heritage
Meet the Friends - Raymond Neutra
Sidney Williams, Frey House
Franklin Vagnone and Deborah Ryan, Museum Anarchists
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Toshiko Mori, architect
Malachi Connolly, Cape Cod Modern House Trust
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Cory Buckner, Mutual Housing Site Office
Jeffrey Herr, Hollyhock House
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Sarah Lorenzen, Neutra VDL Studio and Residences
Ted Bosley, Gamble House
Keeping It Modern - Getty Conservation Grants
Meet the Friends - Thomas Schönauer
Wim de Wit, Stanford University
Linda Dishman, Los Angeles Conservancy
Jesse Lattig, Pasadena Heritage
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Natascha Drabbe, Iconic Houses Foundation
Special speaker Oscar Tusquets
Jordi Tresserras, UNESCO Network ‘Culture, tourism and development’
Christen Obel, Utzon Foundation
Elena Ruiz Sastre, Casa Broner
Fernando Alvarez Prozorovich, La Ricarda
Tim Benton, Professor of Art History (Emeritus)
Susana Landrove, Docomomo Spain
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Jordi Falgàs, Casa Rafael Masó
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Celeste Adams, Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
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Henry Urbach, The Glass House
Victoria & Albert Museum London November 12, 2013
Tommi Lindh, new director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation and Museum
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Lynda Waggoner, Fallingwater
Kimberli Meyer, MAK Center
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5th Iconic Houses Conference May 2018
Modernism on the East Coast – Philip Johnson and the Harvard Five
The Iconic Houses Network will hold its bi-annual international conference in Norwalk, CT, in the New Canaan area.
Full program can be found here
Supported by lead sponsor American Express Foundation, the conference is retracing the root taken by Modernism on the East Coast of the USA when it arrived from Europe. In particular, the New Canaan area has an impressive number of high-quality Modernist homes because the architects who taught at Harvard built houses for themselves and their friends here. Many are the work of Philip Johnson and the architects of the Harvard Five. These unique homes will be the focus of the lectures and conference house tours.
The first general conference afternoon (Thursday, May 17) includes tours of Philip Johnson’s Alice Ball House, the Boissonnas House, the Hodgson House, as well as a guided tour of Johnson’s own iconic Glass House (1949), where New Canaan is naturally mainly associated with.
The second afternoon House Tours (Friday, May 18) will lead to four significant private masterpieces, designed by architects from the Harvard Five, such as the family home of Eliot Noyes; the Goodyear House by John Johansen; the John Rayward House/Tirranna (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1955), and Richard Meier's iconic Smith House (1967).
The Pre-Conference House Tours (Wednesday, May 16) includes guided tours of the Marcel Breuer House in the Pocantico Hills of Tarrytown; Russel Wright’s home and studio 'Manitoga' in Garrison; the Usonia community and the Roland Reisley House (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1951), a Usonian Home in Pleasantville, New York.
There’s also a three-day Post-Conference trip to the modest Modernist holiday homes on Cape Cod which also takes in Cambridge and ends with Boston’s Gropius House (Saturday, May 19 - Monday, May 21). Tours on Cape Cod include houses designed by Serge Chermayeff, Jack Hall, Paul Weidlinger and Charlie Zehnder.
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Full program can be found here.
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Natascha Drabbe, Conference Chair, Founder Iconic Houses | Tim McClimon, President, American Express Foundation |
DAILY SCHEDULE
16 May, Wednesday: Add-on Event
Pre-Conference House Tours
This tour day you will visit the Marcel Breuer House in the Pocantico Hills of Tarrytown, Russel Wright’s home and studio 'Manitoga' in Garrison and the Roland Reisley House, a Usonian Home by Frank Lloyd Wright in Pleasantville, New York. The homes will be visited in rotation. Each shuttle will visit a different home first.
Welcome reception
17 May, Thursday: Conference Day 1 [included in conference fee]
Lectures in the morning
Modernism on the East Coast – Philip Johnson and the Harvard Five
In the 1940s, a group of five modern architects from Harvard inspired by the Bauhaus ideas about architecture settled in the bucolic town of New Canaan, CT, where they stirred up an experimental modernist movement in the sleepy New England town. Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Landis Gores, John Johansen and Philip Johnson, established what would become a center of experimental Modern residential design. Their informal network became later known as the “Harvard Five”. Speakers will offer an insight about the role of architect Philip Johnson and the Harvard Five in the 20th century.
Keynote Address by Terence Riley:
Philip Johnson - Portrait of the Curator as a Young Man
Riley will focus on how Philip Johnson came to fall in love with modern architecture and how he influenced it as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art and as the architect in his own right. Architect Terence Riley is a founding partner of Keenen/Riley. Riley served as the Philip Johnson Chief Curator for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (1991-2006), where he curated critical exhibitions on both historical figures as well as contemporary architects. From 2006 until 2010, Riley was director of the Perez Art Museum Miami, leading the institution through a transformative process of planning and designing a new waterfront facility. In addition to writing and researching contemporary topics, Riley is often a visiting design critic at various universities, including the University of Miami School of Architecture.
A panel discussion will be moderated by Hilary Lewis, Chief Curator & Creative Director at The Glass House, with architects John Arbuckle, President of DOCOMOMO New York/Tri-State, Stover Jenkins, co-author of The Houses of Philip Johnson and William D. Earls, author of The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Midcentury Modern Houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Frederick Noyes.
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Speakers:
- Architect Frederick Noyes will lecture about his childhood home, the Noyes House (1954) in New Canaan. Designed by Eliot Noyes and included on the National Register of Historic Places, the house’s unique composition — two enclosures for public and private functions connected by an open air courtyard — remains highly provocative. Fred will analyze the intent and design of the house in comparison to the Glass House (1949), designed by Philip Johnson.
- Architect Craig Bassam and Creative Director Scott Fellows own the Company BassamFellows, celebrated for its Craftsman Modern aesthetic in interiors, furniture, and lifestyle products. They are the private owners of the Hodgson House (1951), designed by Philip Johnson in New Canaan and are in the process of restoring the house meticulously.
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Afternoon House Tours
The House Tours in the afternoon will lead to four private houses designed by Philip Johnson in New Canaan: the Alice Ball House, Boissonnas House, Hodgson House and culminating in a tour of Philip Johnson's own iconic Glass House.
18 May, Friday: Conference Day 2 [included in conference fee]
Lectures in the morning
Iconic Houses in Latin America
A second theme is Iconic Houses in Latin America, the new focus of the organization’s awareness-raising efforts. Representatives of house museums from several Latin American countries will share their struggles to overcome obstacles, as well as their successful survival strategies.
Keynote Address by Jorge Francisco Liernur:
Iconic houses in Latin America: the Multiple Faces of Modernity
By presenting a group of cases this presentation will try to show how many different cultural traditions constitute the referential frame for local leading architects and how the diversity calls into question the very idea of Iconic Houses in Latin America. As a Professor at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Jorge Francisco Liernur, was also co-curator of MoMA’s recent exhibition and book Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980. In his lecture he will explain how Modernism in residential design developed in Latin America.
Followed by presentations by heritage experts and representatives of house museums in Latin America:
- Architect and professor Fabio Grementieri, advisor to Casa Victoria Ocampo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Catalina Corcuera Cabezut is Director of Casa Estudio Luis Barragán in Mexico City
- Architect and urban planner Renato Anelli, is Board Member of Instituto Lina Bo e P. M. Bardi in São Paulo, Brazil and former director of Lina Bo Bardi's Casa de Vidro and as such overseeing the Keeping it Modern/Getty Foundation's conservation project.
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Afternoon House Tours
The House Tours in the afternoon will lead to Tirranna or Rayward House, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s last grand works and to significant private houses designed by architects of the modern Harvard group, such as the Noyes House II, the family home of Eliot Noyes, the Goodyear House by John Johansen and to Richard Meier's iconic Smith House in Darien.
Closing Cocktail
19-21 May, Saturday- Monday: Add-on Event
Open to Iconic Houses members and recurring Friends of Iconic Houses
Post-Conference Tours to Cape Cod and Boston area
The Post-Conference House Tours to Cambridge, Cape Cod and the Boston area, will be exclusively to offered to 40 attendees who are members or recurring Friends of Iconic Houses. This three day trip includes tours of seven houses; on Cape Cod the Weidlinger House by Paul Weidlinger, Kugel Gips House by Charlie Zehnder, Hatch House by Jack Hall and Chermayeff Studio and House by Serge Chermayeff. With the Walter Gropius House in Lincoln Massachusetts we conclude our fantastic journey.
EXPERT MEETINGS
15 May, Tuesday: Expert Meetings [included in conference fee]
Open to Iconic Houses Members and recurring Friends of Iconic Houses
Expert Meetings
1) The American Art of Fundraising
Around the world, nonprofit organizations must increasingly seek private donations to supplement the funding they receive from public authorities. In their efforts to broaden and diversify their sources of financing, they might draw inspiration from their colleagues in the United States. This expert meeting is designed to introduce you to the factors that have helped our American counterparts achieve continued success in fundraising. It will cover key topics such as strategic planning, prospect identification, membership giving, donor cultivation, capital campaigns, corporate partnerships, planned giving and trustee involvement.
- Amanda J. Nelson, former Deputy Director of Development, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Director MFA Arts Leadership Program Virginia Tech. Building a Donor Base Through Membership: A Toolkit
- John Bacon, Deputy Chief Development Officer for Planned Giving at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. An Introduction to Planned Giving
- Erik Z. Gensler, President Capacity Interactive, New York. Fundraising in a Digital World – Digital Marketing Priorities
- Jean Paul Warmoes, Executive Director, King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS), New York. Tapping into American generosity - An Introduction for Foreign Cultural Institutions
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2) Alternatives to the House Museum Model – Four Case Studies
Sadly, many residential masterpieces quietly disappear as time goes by. However precious they may be, preserving them through multiple generations is never easy because they are private properties. In numerous countries worldwide, many owners of significant 20th-century houses are looking for ways to preserve this emerging heritage. These presentations are designed to suggest new strategies to ensure that the architectural integrity of such houses is secured for future generations. We give the stage to four organizations that have developed alternative approaches to the house-museum model to safeguard the residential icons of the 20th century.
Moderator is Chandler McCoy. At the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, he manages the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative.
- Katherine Malone-France, Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington USA.
- Anne Mette Rahbæk, Head of Communication and special assignments of Realdania Byg, Kopenhagen Denmark. Philanthropic Investments as a Strategy for Preservation
- Architect Peter McMahon, Founder of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Wellfleet USA. Saving Abandoned Modern Houses on Cape Cod
- Architect Toshiko Kinoshita, Board Director of the Heritage Houses Trust, Tokyo Japan. Passing Modern Japanese Heritage Houses to the Next Generation
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Lead Sponsor
Organizing Partners
Sponsors
Sponsors in Kind
Media Partner
Homeowners/Site Partners
Sandra and Richard Bergmann, National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Marcel Breuer House at Pocantico, Roland Reisley, Manitoga, Craig Bassam and Scott Fellows, Reja Bakh, Bill Matassoni and Pamela Valentine, Chuck Smith, Fred Noyes, Lia and Diego Ferro, Mattie Roberts-Whitney and Eric Whitney, Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Peter Chermayeff and Historic New England.
A special thanks to Janet Lindstrom, former director of the New Canaan Historical Society and Inger Stringfellow, who are incredible sources of knowledge about Modernist architecture in Connecticut and who generously shared that with us.
Posted on 4 April 2018