Louis Kahn Fisher House Tour, docomomo Phila
Join DOCOMOMO-US of Greater Philadelphia for an exclusive house tour of Louis Kahn’s Norman Fisher House. Located in Hatsboro, PA, the Fisher House was built between 1960-1967 and consists of two overlapping cubes, merged “on an angle apparently by chance, like dice thrown on a table.”
When:
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
10:30am-3:00pm
tours will occur at 45-minute intervals
Ticket Price:
General: $15
Students: $10 (enter discount code “STUDENT” and present valid student ID at event)
Where:
Norman Fisher House
197 East Mill Road, Hatboro, PA
Spotted just outside of Westchester, PA. Anybody know about this house?
Design on the Delaware Mod panel discussion and walking tour.
AIA Philadelphia’s ninth annual Design on the Delaware regional conference will be held November 7-9. This collaborativeconference will examine the issues and opportunities of the built environment for design and building professionals in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, with over 50 sessions and tours. The Alliance’s advocacy director Ben Leech will be leading a panel discussion and Center City walking tour highlighting our “I Like Mod” mid-century modern advocacy campaign. For more information or to register, click here.
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia Mid-Century Modern Architectural Resources
A great listing of mid-century modern buildings and houses within Philadelphia.
The Architects’ Own Homes Tour 3 - Pheonix. This looks to be a very cool modern house tour.
Docomomo Philadelphia Modern Home Tour: White Residence by Arthur White
Fascinating steel framed house, masonry walls, enameled steel fascia panels - all commercial construction techniques of the time. More photos posted at Flickr - follow the link in the title above.
Docomoco Philadelphia Modern Home Tour: Zaprauskis Residence by Rudolfs Zaprauskis
A beautiful home on a hillside site. The title link will take you to more photo’s at Flickr.
Docomomo Philadelphia Modern Home Tour: D'Onofrio Residence by Arthur Tofani
The most dramatic feature of this house was the curved butterfly roof. Most endearing, the Mondrian like collage of window frames. The title link above will take you to more photos at Flickr.
Docomomo Philadelphia Modern Home Tour: Irv Stein's Wachs House
Some older photos from a prior tour are here too, but we’ve added about 30 new shots of this great house. The title link above will take you to more photos at Flickr.
SAVE WRIGHT Annual Conference coming to Philadelphia in September
With its rich history in progressive American architecture and design, Philadelphia provides a splendid vantage point to explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s work in relation to that of his east coast contemporaries and students during this year’s annual conference, September 21-25, 2011.
This year’s conference will be headquartered at the Sheraton Society Hill, situated in one of Philadelphia’s most charming historic neighborhoods filled with brick Federal and Georgian rowhouses and steps away from Center City.
Philadelphia Modern House Tour 2011
Hooray Modern House Fans. The annual Philadelphia Modern House Tour has just been announced, organized by realtor Craig Wakefield, but this time also by Philadelphia’s new Chapter of DocoMomo. Here is more info from Craig:
I am glad to announce the 4th annual Philadelphia Modern Home Tour. The Oct 9th, 2011 tour is of Mid-Century Modern Homes in Delaware County. The lineup is great this year and I hope you are all able to attend. As in past years there will be much variety in the homes that are included. Work by architects Arthur Tofanni, Arthur White, Rudolphs Zaprauskis, Irwin Stein, Edward Robinson, and possibly a home by George Daub are included. This year I am presenting the tour together with the newly formed Philadelphia Area Docomomo Chapter and all ticket proceeds will go to the chapter. Again as in past years the tour will be a self driving tour and you will be able to proceed at your own pace. Background information and maps will be emailed to all who have purchased tickets prior to the tour. Tickets will be limited to 100 this year and I expect we will sell out quickly as in years past. Please send me a note to let me know how many tickets you would like me to reserve for you. Please also mail the donation check made out to DOCOMOMO to my home address included below, after letting me know how many tickets you want reserved. More photos of the homes that are included along with photos from previous tours can be found on the community page of my website:
The New Canaan Historical Society will present “Seeing Modern,” an all-day tour and symposium featuring some of New Canaan’s mid-century modern homes designed by the preeminent architects of the time.
(link: New Canaan Historical Society)
A Modern House project here in our Region
A project by Gregory La Vardera Architect, DVM member/organizer (or lack of organizer!). This house is a near complete tear down and reinvention of an existing house creating what he has come to call “MoTrad” - a mix of modern design and traditional form. In this case the owner desired the house to be a good neighbor on this suburban street, but have a distinct modern aesthetic which became more dominant at the rear of the house.
The house is in its last phase of construction, finishes have begun. Would DVM members care to lobby the owner for a tour date when the house is complete? Contact Greg if so.
Philadelphia DOCOMOMO Chapter starting
The correspondence sent to me:
Thank you for your interest in DOCOMOMO and the development of our Greater Philadelphia Chapter. We will be having our kick-off meeting for the Chapter on January 19th at 7pm at my 1950 Norman Rice Historic home in East Falls at 3421 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia. I appreciate all of the efforts that you have made to preserve our architectural treasures and look forward to the common mission and comraderie of our wonderful members. We have many items in the works and an agenda will be issued to you in advance as well as a dial-up number for those who are not able to attend in person.
Some of the highlights include:
· Co-Founder, Stephen Anderson is compiling (from several sources) a composite list of signifcant structures.
· Bobbie Tilkens-Fisher is generating a list of ideas for our upcoming website, to make it interactive, informative and visually stunning.
· Ben Leech, Director of Advocacy , Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, has accepted an Ex-Officio membership in our Chapter.
· John Gallery has asked our Chapter to serve as a Modernism advisory committee for the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia.
· Craig Wakefield, Bobbie Tilkens-Fisher and others are coordinating a Modernist Home Tour featuring homes in Delaware County which will be held in May 2011. The proceeds of the tour will be used to build our website.
We look forward to the strengths and ideas that you will bring to our Chapter! If you are not already a member of DOCOMOMO, please click the link below to register. The dues are $55 per year, fully tax deductable and 50% of the dues ($27.50) are returned to our Chapter. Alternatively, if you find that you will not be able to participate, please shoot me a return email, so that I can keep our membership rolls current. https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=fuXHxnBFUOZwjZ_B8aqLkAFsmsqx0Bdrts4hpS8SZvol7usP4nIhBCpzB4u&dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9b61f737ba21b08198ad5733caaf944cbac24b2728ea935a7c
For more info contact: Bobbie Tilkens bobbietilkens@yahoo.com or Janet Grace j.grace@athenianprop.com
1519 Cleveland St. - New Modern Home in South Carolina
This new modern house is selling for 130k in South Carolina. We can certainluy do something like this in the Delaware Valley, don’t you think?
