| | Welcome Rietveld's Van Daalen House in Bergeijk! | In a village in the south of the Netherlands, architect Gerrit Rietveld designed a modernist house for the Van Daalen family. The house was designed in 1956; Roelof van Daalen was then co-director of progressive weaving factory De Ploeg. The house is a striking example of how Rietveld blurred the boundaries between interior and exterior. Contact with nature is optimized by narrow strips of glass between the roof and the wall.
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| | DATE CHANGE: Edith Farnsworth House Tour 29/09/22 | We're proud to announce that architect Dirk Lohan, grandson of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, will join the Q&A following the Inside Iconic Houses tour of the Edith Farnsworth House on 29 September. Don't miss this tour, which is led by Scott Mehaffy, Executive Director of the house. Our host on site is Kristin Stone, owner and Director of the Pasadena Tour Company and official tour partner of Iconic Houses.
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| | Corberó Space: New Life for Hidden Jewel | In 1968, in the medieval heart of Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona), sculptor Xavier Corberó (1935-2017) began his masterpiece: an epic, labyrinthine live/work space complete with Escher-like staircases, ponds, gardens, patios with arcades and a forest inhabited by sculpted 'characters'. Esplugues de Llobregat Council has now bought the Corberó Space and plans to make it a cultural facility, open to the public.
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| | Non-Conformist Architect Harry Gessner Dead at 97 | On June 10, architect Harry Gesner passed away at his home, the Sandcastle in Malibu, California. He was 97. The New York Times obituary describes him as “the dashing, surf-loving architect whose soaring designs celebrated California’s dramatic landscape in houses that straddled canyons, perched over beaches, and cantilevered from cliffs." We were lucky to know Harry, who was Guest of Honour at our 2016 Conference.
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| | Icon Saved: Dorchester Drive House | A remarkably well-preserved Art Deco house in South London has been saved from demolition, after an urgent intervention by the C20 Society. Number 10 Dorchester Drive in Herne Hill was built in 1935-36 by Kemp and Tasker with the builders Messrs Morrell. The house is based on the architects’ winning design for the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition in 1934 and is one of only two show homes of the time to survive in the UK.
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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. Please donate to help our non-profit continue putting these houses in the spotlight to try to save them from demolition.
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