Passive Climate Management Features in Traditional Historic Buildings
Traditional historic buildings (built before 1945) were often built in ways that recognize the high degree of individual controllability that buildings that respond to their climate and region can have. Traditional and vernacular buildings, constructed before fossil fuels were in widespread use, required active participation of building occupants [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Glass House’
True Green / Making Choices About Original Design Features
Posted in Buildings, Modernism and Recent Past, Sustainability, tagged Best Practices Manual, curtain wall, Farnsworth House, Glass House, Shadows on the Teche, traditional buildings on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jenna Cellini named Robert Silman Fellow for Preservation Engineering
Posted in Buildings, Modernism and Recent Past, tagged Farnsworth House, Glass House, Jenna Cellini, Robert Silman Associates on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jenna Cellini has joined the National Trust for Historic Preservation as the fourth Robert Silman Fellow for Preservation Engineering. The Silman Fellow works for six months in the Historic Sites Department under the direction of Graham Gund Architect Barbara Campagna, FAIA, LEED AP.
Jenna joins us from New York City where [...]
The Challenge of Interpreting 20th Century Historic Landmarks
Posted in Buildings, Interpretation, Marketing, Modernism and Recent Past, tagged Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Farnsworth, Farnsworth House, Flickr, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glass House, Mies van der Rohe, Mills College of Art, Philip Johnson, Yale School of Architecture Gallery on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because two of the newest National Trust Historic Sites are regarded as modernist icons (Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson Glass House), I’m often assessing how the mid-twentieth century is interpreted. Yesterday, Mills College of Art in northern California (in collaboration with the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum with the Yale School of Architecture Gallery) opened, [...]
Glass House inspires Michael Kors with new clothing line
Posted in Buildings, Marketing, Modernism and Recent Past, tagged Fashion, Glass House, Michael Kors on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time (in my memory at least), a National Trust Historic Site has inspired high fashion. Michael Kors has recently announced his pre-fall line-up (is that summer?) of a “wood-grain-print sheath dress, a three-quarters-sleeve cheetah-print balmacaan, and color-blocked cashmere sweaters” that were inspired by the Philip Johnson Glass House. An [...]
2009 Glass House tickets go on sale September 23
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Glass House on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mark your calendars! Tickets to visit the Glass house next year will go on sale Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 9 am. Tickets are $30 for 90-minute tours and $45 for 2-hour tours and will be available first-come, first-served. Tickets will be available online at www.philipjohnsonglasshouse.org or by calling 866.811.4111.
Tickets will probably sell out that [...]
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