| | Welcome to Paul Rudolph's Umbrella House in Sarasota! | Architecture Sarasota conducts once-a-month public tours of the Umbrella House, which Architectural Digest described as "One of the five most remarkable houses of the mid-20th century." The dominant feature of the aptly named house, its 'umbrella', was originally built of wood and used to shade the house from the intense Florida sun. It was lost in a storm in the 1960s. The full umbrella over the pool was restored in 2015.
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| | Save the Date! 28 July: Inside Iconic Houses at the Edith Farnsworth House | Join us for an expert-led tour of one of the most iconic modern buildings in the world: Mies van der Rohe's sleek glass residence. This groundbreaking country retreat was designed in 1945 for Dr. Edith Farnsworth. Join our online tour with Director Scott Mehaffy and our official tour partner Kristin Stone of the Pasadena Tour Company.
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| | Iconic Houses in the Netherlands - Berlage's Masterpiece | Impressing guests - that was the goal of the wealthy couple Anton and Helene Kröller-Müller for the hunting mansion that they commissioned from architect H.P. Berlage in early 1915. Helene was a very idiosyncratic woman with outspoken ideas about living. She left her own mark on the design and without her the mansion would not appear as it does today.
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| | New Book on Maison Bernard | Antti Lovag (1920-2014) was a Hungarian architect, living in the south of France, who specialized in ‘bubble' houses and so-called ‘organic’ architecture. He built fewer than ten buildings. Maison Bernard, on the Côte d'Azur, is one of the finest examples and reflects the exciting relationship between the client, Pierre Bernard, and the architect. The book retraces this relationship, which shines through Yves Gellie's photographs.
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| | Podcast: Every Fixture Tells a Story: Neutra’s Reunion House | When is a light fixture not just a light fixture? When it helps tell the story of a remarkable home designed and lived in by one of the 20th century's greatest architects. The 1951 Reunion House in LA was designed by Richard Neutra. In a partnership between the Neutra Institute and the USC School of Architecture's Heritage Conservation Program, the Reunion House was the field study project for the graduate-level Methods and Materials class. This episode gives you a new appreciation of the materials in the historic home - with a love story thrown in for fun.
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| | Podcast series: SAVE AS | Why do we save historic places, and for whom? Who decides what’s worth saving? How can heritage conservation advance racial equity and social justice, address climate change, and foster healthy communities? Award winning podcast SAVE AS explores these and other issues through interviews with graduate students in the University of Southern California’s Heritage Conservation Program.
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| | Adopt an Icon at Risk - PLEASE DONATE! | Thanks to your donations, we can add new houses to our Icons at Risk Watch List. As well as the 42 icons already listed, we have 30 more houses on our radar worldwide that need research in order to be published. And we need your support for that. Like many non-profits, the Iconic Houses Foundation is in a precarious position due to Covid. Please donate to help us continue putting these houses in the spotlight to try to save them from demolition. Your support means so much to us: thank you!
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