| | Welcome Hotel Avion by Bohuslav Fuchs! | Designed by Bohuslav Fuchs, the 1928 Avion is one of Europe's narrowest hotels. In the heart of Brno, its footprint is just 8 x 34 metres. With 10 floors, 37 rooms and a ground-floor restaurant, the spectacular hotel highlights Fuchs' influence on Brno's urban planning. Home to a permanent exhibition about Fuchs, the Avion is a Czech icon of architectural innovation.
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| | Final call! City Icons: Amsterdam, 24-26 May 2024 | Calling all architecture aficionados: get one of the last few tickets for our first City Icons weekend tour! Join us for a tour of Amsterdam’s avant-garde homes from the 20th and 21st centuries, and enjoy a fascinating behind-the-scenes experience in exciting privately owned homes not usually open to the public. Inspiration guaranteed - but first come, first served!
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| | Exhibition: Through a Bauhaus Lens, 2 Mar - 27 Oct | Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Isokon Flats, the Isokon Gallery in London hosts Through a Bauhaus Lens: Edith Tudor-Hart and Isokon. This exhibition of previously unseen 1934 photographs, by Bauhaus-trained photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, documents the construction and opening of the Isokon, Britain's first reinforced concrete apartment block.
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| | Tour + Film Screening in Haus Lange, Krefeld: 24 March | MORE MIES - Two Weeks of Nothing But Architecture kicks off with a tour of Mies' Haus Lange on Sunday 24 March, focusing on the retractable window system as demonstrated by Krefeld architect Klaus Reymann and the museum’s educator Eva Caroline Eick. The tour will be followed by a screening of our film, Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House.
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| | Iconic Dreams | Always wanted to sleep in a museum? Now's your chance! Iconic Houses' members include an exclusive selection of museum homes that you can rent for a holiday. Most houses served as weekend or holiday homes for their original owners, giving their architects more creative freedom. These well designed, authentic and often experimental houses have wonderful stories to tell.
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| | WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize for Casa del Puente! | Casa del Puente in Argentina has been awarded the WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize for outstanding restoration. Built in 1943 in the form of a bridge, the house was later abandoned. Thanks to the efforts of local preservation groups, the Ministries of Culture and Public Works and the Municipality of Mar del Plata stepped in and saved the house. Now a museum, you can find it on our World Map and as a Saved Icon in our Icons at Risk section.
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| | Volunteer for the Iconic Houses Research Group! | | In some countries, active researchers are using their networks to find potential new modern house museums that meet the criteria to become an affiliated museum of Iconic Houses. Would you enjoy looking for modern museum homes that are not yet part of Iconic Houses? Then join our research group! Contact Natascha Drabbe at ndrabbe@iconichouses.org if you would like to get involved. |
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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. 42 icons are already listed, but we have more houses on our radar that need research in order to be published. And we need your support for that. Please donate to help us continue putting these houses in the spotlight to hopefully save them from demolition. Your support means a lot to us:
Thank you!
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