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.
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.
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.
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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