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April 27, 2007
Those who lived in glass houses . . . had better fund foundations to preserve them.
Philip Johnson's Glass House, which puts the icon in iconic for American Modernism, is going to open to the public on May 1. Here's a useful essay about the house and Johnson at Bloomberg .com: Muse. Johnson was an odd bird - he went from museum curator to architect, a man who introduced the International Style to America at MoMA to a practitioner of International Style.
The official website for the new study center at The Glass House, and here's the foundation's mission page, Preserve the Modern.
The mission of the Glass House is to be a center point and catalyst for the preservation of modern architecture, art and landscape. We will pull together and strengthen all of the existing efforts by working alongside other organizations focused on modern preservation to have the greatest impact.
Johnson's Glass House at GreatBuildings.com
The photo above - quite a good one! - is from a Flickr set of a man standing in front of National Trust Historic Sites - fun to work through in itself. I'm enjoying posting pictures here via Flickr - I search for photos with a Creative Commons license, hit BLOG THIS, leave a short note of thanks, and then come over here to fiddle with the entry. Very simple.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 27, 2007 6:41 AM