Matt Postal’s latest Municipal Art Society walking tour showcases signature midcentury Modern works along Park Avenue—big names alongside some of their lesser-known contemporaries—while touching on recent efforts to restore and reform the Avenue’s Modern character.
HisTOURy has organized a bus tour through the Westchester villages of Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, and Ardsley. Their close proximity to Manhattan attracted dozens of modern-thinking homeowners to commission architects such as George Nemeny, William Switzer, and Martin Lowenfish to design their homes.
DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State President John Arbuckle presents this Municipal Art Society virtual tour featuring a compelling selection of significant Modern houses in New Canaan, CT.
Join this HisTOURy bus tour through Weston, CT. Along with the towns of Westport and Easton next door, the area proved to be one of Fairfield County’s hot spots for midcentury modern homes, including those designed by Richard Neutra, Paul Rand, and Joseph Salerno.
Head to New Canaan to see Modernism, Inc., a new documentary film covering the life and career of Eliot Noyes—a transitional figure in American corporate design and an influential midcentury architect who was part of the Harvard Five. Presented by Grace Farms and Architecture and Design Film Festival.