| | Welcome Serralves Villa: First Member From Portugal! | The Serralves Villa in Porto is a significant example of Art Deco architecture. It was designed and constructed between 1925 and 1944. Located in one of the highest points of the property, the Villa presides majestically over the Serralves Park and Alvaro Siza’s Serralves Museum (1999). With great decorative rigor and quality materials, the Villa benefited from the intervention of leading figures of the time, such as Marques da Silva, Charles Siclis, Jacques Émile Ruhlmann and René Lalique.
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| | Rietveld-Schröder House Remembers De Stijl | Iconic Houses member the Rietveld Schröder House, located in Utrecht, the Netherlands, was a revolutionary architectural statement when it was unveiled in 1924. Now a listed Unesco World Heritage site, the house forms part of the collection of the Centraal Museum Utrecht. The museum will be marking the De Stijl anniversary with an exhibition devoted to the house as an icon of the movement. Exhibition runs from 4 March to 11 June.
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| | Save the Date! 5th International Conference May 2018 | The program will cover all the highlights of the USA's East Coast (CT and MA), including the famous Glass House and Manitoga. The two-day lecture sessions will focus on Philip Johnson and the Harvard Five and are followed by afternoon house tours to private masterpieces in and around New Canaan. An exclusive post-conference tour brings you to Modernist holiday houses on Cape Cod, the Gropius House in Boston and more.
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| | Meet Our New Foundation Board Members | We’re ringing in the New Year with some new Iconic Houses board members. So a warm welcome to our new Chair Hendrik Jan de Ru, Treasurer Huub Wüst and Board Member Hetty Berens, who will be joining us for the exciting times ahead! We wish them lots of luck in their new functions. We spoke to all our new board members during our New Year reception, when they shared some of their ambitions for Iconic Houses with us.
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| | Janice Lyle Joins Advisory Board | Our last new addition to the International Advisory Board, Janice Lyle, is director of the Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage, California. She joins the directors of several other distinguished museum houses on our advisory board: Lynda Waggoner (of Fallingwater), Iveta Cerna (Villa Tugendhat) and Susanna Pettersson (formerly Alvar Aalto Foundation). If you would like to find out more about Sunnylands, designed by A. Quincy Jones in 1966, follow the link to Janice’s new book, 'Sunnylands: America’s Midcentury Masterpiece'.
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