Iconic Houses Symposium V&A Museum London - 12 November

The Iconic Houses Network is proud to announce its first European symposium that will be organised together with The Finnish Institute in London and held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. To start the discussion five cases will be explored, including Melnikov House, Villa Tugendhat, Schindler House and Fallingwater. How to build audiences? How to make sure that iconic houses, as an extremely valuable part of our built heritage, will be professionally cared for and passed on intact to future generations? Come and join us!
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Heritage Days in Paris - 13 + 15 September

Why not spend a weekend in Paris in September, visiting a variety of well-known yet unusual (and usually off-bounds) historical monuments? We can already tell you that the historic classified monument, the Maison-atelier Chana Orloff, designed by architect Auguste Perret in 1926, will be on the programme.
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Triennale der Moderne 27 September - 13 October

The initiative for a ‘Triennale der Moderne’ (Modernism Triennial) started from the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Berlin, Weimar and Dessau and intends to build a network of modern architecture and make the world heritage of modern architecture in Germany known.
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Prestigious Art Nouveau mansions in Brussels open

The Max Hallet House (Victor Horta), the Solvay House (Victor Horta) and the Ciamberlani House (Paul Hankar) will be exceptionally open to the public on the first Saturdays of September, November and December 2013 for visits in French and English.
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Five questions for .... Lynda Waggoner

Lynda Waggoner is the Director of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and a Vice President at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. As a Pennsylvania native she was a guide at Fallingwater as a teenager and after her studies she came back to Fallingwater as the first curator and later director.
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