Message from the Editor

This month, the Iconic Houses Network is delighted to welcome the Ungers Archive for Architectural Studies as a new member. The archive is located in the house that Oswald Matthias Ungers designed for his family in Cologne in 1959. The house is a testament to Ungers’ architecture of the 1960s, which won him his first international acclaim. Read more >>

Europa Nostra Award for Taut's Home

The ‘European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award’ is the single most important prize for the preservation and promotion of Europe’s cultural and historical monuments. Read more >>

Icon at Risk: Melnikov House

Over 30 of the world’s leading architects and eminent architectural historians have signed a letter expressing their grave concern about the dilapidated state of the iconic house built by Russian avant-garde architect Konstantin Melnikov in Moscow. Read more >>

Neutra's Home on Screen

The Iconic Houses lecture series continues on 14 April 2013 with a talk by Raymond Neutra, the son of modernist architect Richard Neutra (1892-1970). Read more >>

Five Questions for Michel Richard

Michel Richard is the Director of the Le Corbusier Foundation in Paris. Le Corbusier himself set up the Foundation, with the mission of ensuring the conservation of his output in architecture and the visual arts.
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Wright's Homes on Screen

Reflecting his often unsettled life, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a number of houses for himself: his home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, Taliesin East near Spring Green, Wisconsin and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk

The 39th Annual Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk, an all-day event with rare interior tours of nine private homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries.
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