Events  2025

Wednesday
April

30

LocalBook Talk

Fire Island Modernist by Christopher Rawlins with Charles Renfro

Rizzoli bookstore is hosting a book talk on Fire Island Modernist featuring author Christopher Rawlins and architect Charles Renfro. The book focuses on the life and work of modernist architect Horace Gifford, exploring his architectural legacy in Fire Island Pines and its deep ties to 1960s gay culture and environmental design. It offers insight into how Gifford’s innovative homes shaped both queer history and modern architecture.

Thursday
April

24

LocalVirtual Tour

Wright Virtual Visits: Florida Southern College Planetarium & Polk County Science Building

This month the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s “Virtual Visits” online event series will visit Florida Southern College, the campus designed by Frank Lloyd Wright beginning in 1938, in Lakeland, FL., The Planetarium and Polk County Science Building will be the focus.

Tuesday
April

22

LocalLecture

Lunch & Learn: Susan Guerrero on her father photographer Pedro Guerrero

Susan Guerrero will speak about her father, the internationally famous architectural photographer Pedro Guerrero at a lunch hour talk presented by the New Canaan Museum and Historical Society.

Monday
April

21

LocalBook Talk

Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture

Architect, writer, and educator Jose Aragüez will speak at Yale on his book Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture, which explores a contemporary theory of spatial organization through the work of architects and theorists Vittorio Giorgini, Michaël Burt, and Cecil Balmond. Aragüez will discuss how these figures’ interdisciplinary approaches to design have expanded architectural thinking, offering new frameworks for today’s architectural discourse and practice.

Thursday
April

17

LocalLecture

The Glass House presents a book talk on Glass Houses

This Glass House lecture will showcase 50 breathtaking architect-designed homes that highlight the beauty and functionality of glass in modern residential architecture. From iconic modernist structures like Philip Johnson’s Glass House to daring contemporary glass homes around the world, this lecture will be a visual treat.

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