| | Welcome SWB Guest Apartment in Neubühl, Zurich! | Stay at the SWB Guest Apartment in the 1932 Neubühl cooperative settlement and visit Zurich and the surrounding area. Designed by an architect collective around Paul Artaria, the apartment lets you experience living in a unique icon of early modernity. Guests can still enjoy the feeling of living with light, air and sun, and of being in the city and yet in the countryside, that was so important at the time the apartment was built.
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| | Dirk Lohan to join Q&A after Edith Farnsworth House Tour 29 September | 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. The tour is led by Scott Mehaffy, the house's Executive Director, and our host on site is Kristin Stone of the Pasadena Tour Company, our official tour partner.
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| | Villa Tugendhat - Inside Iconic Houses Tour 27 October | Join Director Iveta Cerna, Director of Villa Tugendhat, for an exclusive tour of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s masterpiece and UNESCO World Heritage listed house in Brno. The villa was designed for Greta and Fritz Tugendhat in 1928/29 and completed in 1930. It remains a unique work of art in terms of its construction, layout, interior furnishing, technical support and integration in nature.
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| | Iconic Houses in The Netherlands - Van Doesburg Rinsema House | De Stijl was one of the most important movements in architecture in the 1920s. A world-famous example is Gerrit Rietveld's Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht. But De Stijl's exploration of colour and its effect on the perception of space also reached the far north of the Netherlands - a fact that became clear with the 2018 opening of the Van Doesburg Rinsema House in Drachten.
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| | New visits for Horta's Young Friends! | Horta's Young Friends, a group of Art Nouveau enthusiasts under 35, meets regularly to visit emblematic sites of the era. There are new tours on 29 September (the restoration of Maison Hannon, completed by Jules Brunfaut in 1903 for engineer/photographer Edouard Hannon, prior to the opening of the Hannon Museum in 2023), and on 24 November (the home of architect Gustave Strauven from 1905, an Art Nouveau masterpiece in Brussels).
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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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