| | Early-Bird Hotel Room Rate - Final Week! | With more exclusive house tours, more authoritative speakers, and more knowledge-sharing networking activities than ever before, the Iconic Houses 5th International Conference is our most ambitious event yet. Taking place from May 15th to 18th at Dolce Norwalk in Norwalk, CT, the conference takes in the superb Modernist homes of the New Canaan area. Register now to take advantage of early-bird rates!
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| | Welcome James Rose Center! | Fifteen minutes from New York City and a short drive from Russel Wright's Manitoga is the James Rose Center. Rose (1913–1991) was a prominent landscape architect and his compound fulfilled his dream of establishing a landscape-research centre. The James Rose Center combines scrap-metal sculptures, inventive fibreglass screens and three glass and block structures, creating a unified spatial experience with the existing trees.
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| | Keynote Address: Philip Johnson – Portrait of the Curator as a Young Man | Our conference keynote speaker Terence Riley will focus on how Philip Johnson came to fall in love with Modern architecture and how he influenced its development both as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art and as an architect. 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 and contemporary architects.
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| | The Harvard Five: The Advent of Modernism in New Canaan | Hilary Lewis, our conference co-chair, is Chief Curator and Creative Director of the Glass House. A renowned Philip Johnson scholar, she met the architect in 1992 and worked with him closely on books and publications, including his memoirs. She took up her current post in January 2017. Hilary will moderate a panel discussion at our conference in New Canaan in May.
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| | +More to Explore: Fallingwater | Fallingwater, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most widely acclaimed works, was designed in 1935 for the family of Pittsburgh department-store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. You'll find a slideshow about his masterpiece in our Specials section, which presents micro websites within our main site. See the carousel at the bottom of our homepage for 20 of these extensive presentations. In the directory, you can recognize them by the +sign.
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