CURRENT TOURS for SUMMER & FALL 2008

 

JOHN LAUTNER in Los Angeles                July 18

 

PHILIP JOHNSON's Glass House    Aug 25-28

& more Connecticut Architecture 

 

SCOTLAND and IRELAND (Dublin)         October 12-22

(Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Andy Goldsworthy, Charles Jencks)

 

PITTSBURGH & FALLINGWATER      December 5-7

 

 

 

CURRENT TOUR DETAILS BELOW:

 

JOHN LAUTNER in Los Angeles              Friday, July 18

If you live in or near Los Angeles, plan to join a one-day tour to explore the work of Los Angeles architect JOHN LAUTNER.  

See the major exhibition JOHN LAUTNER: BETWEEN EARTH & HEAVEN at the Hammer Museum, UCLA.

Sheats/Goldstein Residence, John Lautner, 1963-89 ongoing

Visit Lautner's fabulous SHEATS/GOLDSTEIN RESIDENCE ('63-'89 and ongoing); WILLIS HARPEL RESIDENCE ('56); SHEATS APARTMENTS ('48); Current TV Studio set - exact replica of the CHEMOSPHERE ('60).

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PHILIP JOHNSON's Glass House               August 25-28

Rare opportunity to visit Philip Johnson's Glass House, now open on a limited basis by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.   See other modernist houses in New Canaan by the Harvard Five.

http://www.thecityreview.com/arcnow.html

Also tour Usonian homes by Frank Lloyd Wright in Pleasantville, NY.

See great buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, CT:  Louis Kahn's Yale Art Gallery and Center for British Art; Paul Rudolph's Art and Architecture Building (now called the Rudolph Building, with Gwathmey Siegel's renovation); Gwathmey Siegel's new Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art; Gordon Bunshaft (SOM)'s Bienecke Library; and more!

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SCOTLAND (Glasgow, Dumfries) and IRELAND (Dublin)         

(Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Andy Goldsworthy, Charles Jencks)   October 12-22

In Glasgow, explore the work of CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (1868-1928) architect, designer and watercoloris of the Arts & Crafts Movement, and the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland.

Hal Dining Stairs  Hill House, Helensburgh, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

 

Then travel southwest to the beautiful countryside of Dumfries, to see the landscape art of ANDY GOLDSWORTHY and CHARLES JENCKS, who both reside in Dumfriesshire.

Charles Jencks' Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Dumfries Garden of Cosmic Delight, Dumfries, by Charles Jencks

And finally, to DUBLIN , where the Architecture of Ireland is one of the most visible features in the Irish countryside - with remains from all eras since the Stone Age abounding -  contrasting with an explosion of 21st century architecture!

   James Joyce Bridge, Dublin, by Santiaga Calatrava

 

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PITTSBURGH & FALLINGWATER             December 5-7

Private in-depth tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob are the highlights of this tour, but first, an architectural tour of Pittsburgh with Pittsburgh History & Landmark Foundation Director of Historical Collections.

Also, a day of ART at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, and/or the Mattress Factory, a unique contemporary installation space.

 

 

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CONTACT ME:   

Karen Bergenthal, Tours d'Art                                                                                                                                                            

East Town Travel, 758 N. Broadway, Milwaukee WI 53202  
tel: 1-800-822-3789; direct line: 414-847-2051     

email:  kbergenthal@easttowntravel.com