| | 2018 Conference & House Tours - A Huge Success | No fewer than 135 enthusiastic house-museum professionals, homeowners and architecture lovers from 18 different countries attended our May conference, enjoying inspiring lectures and visits to the most extraordinary 20th-century homes in the New Canaan area, Cape Cod, and Boston. Couldn't be there? Follow the link to get a first impression of this memorable event. We'll be back with a report and a highlights reel in our next newsletter.
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| | Melnikov House Joins the Plaque Club | Slowly but surely, the Iconic Houses plaque is becoming a familiar sight worldwide, as our black-and-white badges of honour migrate to our member homes. Melnikov House (Moscow) joins, Villa Tugendhat (Brno), three Aalto houses (Finland), the Rietveld-Schröder House (Utrecht), Eames House (Los Angeles), Sunnylands (Rancho Mirage), Villa Stenersen (Oslo), Villa Esche (Chemnitz) and many more....
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| | Welcome MHA Site Office, by A. Quincy Jones in LA | The MHA Site Office was the first structure built in Crestwood Hills for the post-war cooperative housing effort, formerly known as the Mutual Housing Association. Today, only 30 of the original 80 designs remain. Of these, 19 are designated cultural and historic monuments of the City of Los Angeles. MHA Site Office is one of them. Now the stunning home of architect Cory Buckner, it can be visited by appointment.
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| | Welcome Strutt House: Our First Member in Canada! | The Strutt House in Ottawa is a defining work of the prominent Canadian postwar architect James W. Strutt. Constructed as his family’s residence in 1956, it is Canada’s earliest wood hyperbolic paraboloid roof and a first example of its type internationally. It was built over a period of six weeks by a carpenter and one helper. The Strutt Foundation took on the facility and its public programming in 2015.
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| | +Sunnylands - More to Explore in our 'Specials' section | One of our favourite house museums is Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, Palm Springs. You can explore this design by A. Quincy Jones in one of our 'Specials' - these are micro-websites within our main site. We now host 20 of these extensive presentations - you'll find them in the carousel at the bottom of our homepage. And you can recognize them in the directory by the +plus sign.
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