| Early Bird Registration: Iconic Houses Conference 2-8 June 2020 | Early bird tickets are now available (until Tuesday, 31 December 2019), so register soon to secure your place! Visit our website to see the latest speaker line-up and read about our Expert Meeting themes in this newsletter. More lecture information will feature on our site in the weeks to come. Meanwhile, early booking for our house-tour program is particularly recommended. The registration deadline is Friday, 15 May 2020. We encourage you to join Iconic Houses as a Member or Friend if you haven't yet done so to qualify for the discounted registration fee. For information about Iconic Houses membership or becoming a Friend of Iconic Houses, please visit iconichouses.org/support.
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| | 2 June 2020: Expert Meeting 1 - Sustainable Conservation of Modernist Houses | The stripes say it all - they represent rising average global temperatures from 1850 to 2018 (using data from the UK Met Office). So we look at how to change our environmental stripes as Modern house owners and curators. Sustainable conservation, often relying on tailor-made technical solutions to maintain architectural integrity while saving energy, can prepare a building for the future. So where to start?
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| | 2 June 2020: Expert Meeting 2 - Modern Heritage Homes after 1965 | Newer (post-1965) examples of architectural heritage can be particularly vulnerable, as they usually lack official protection – or even recognition. Luckily, there is a growing consensus that this more recent heritage is worth preserving. We look at current developments in young heritage.
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| | 4 June 2020: Conference theme - Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House | We explore 20th-century Dutch architecture from the Amsterdam School to Post-Modernism, visiting wonderful homes by Rietveld, J.J.P. Oud, Brinkman & Van der Vlugt and plenty of others, in Utrecht, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Several of these sites are examples of social housing – an area in which the Netherlands is particularly rich.
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| | 5 June 2020: Conference theme - Saving Icons at Risk | Much recent heritage remains unprotected – and therefore vulnerable. Icons at Risk is a research project that aims to help protect and support threatened 20th-century houses. At the conference, we will highlight some of the homes currently under threat, and learn from success stories such as Villa Cavrois (from condemned building to 100,000 annual visitors).
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| | Welcome Casa Weeber on Curaçao! | Dutch architect Carel Weeber developed his family home on the Caribbean island Curaçao according the building principles of traditional plantation houses: capturing maximum incoming wind and a minimum of direct sunlight. Consequently, air conditioning is not needed. A huge rainwater reservoir, indoor swimming pool and solar boiler also contribute to the eco-friendliness of the design. This year, the house is available as a holiday rental for the first time.
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| | Venturo House Extends Space-Age Utopia | The Finnish Exhibition Centre WeeGee, in Espoo near Helsinki, manages the Futuro house (1968). Now, it has acquired the Venturo house by the same architect, Matti Suuronen, from a private owner. Designed in 1971, the Venturo will be taken for refurbishment this autumn and open to the public in summer 2021 at WeeGee. The Venturo house, also called CF-45, will join the Futuro (no. 001) that WeeGee first exhibited in 2012.
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| | Follow us on Instagram! | Did you know that Iconic Houses is on Instagram too? @iconichouses brings you another channel of iconic inspiration! We’re still on the channels you know and love, so be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to our YouTube channel for even more news.
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| Share your tips with us! | We’re always on the look-out for new and inspiring examples of modern house museums. So, if you know a unique and unmissable 20th-century house that isn’t yet on our map and open to the public, please tell us about it by mailing: info@iconichouses.org.
Thanks for your suggestions! |
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