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.
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.
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.
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.
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.