What a memorable evening at the Chicago Architecture Center in celebration of Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD's new book, "Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture." A full house turned out in Tuesday's heat and thunderstorms for a talk & reception with Michelangelo and special guests Elizabeth Blasius of Preservation Futures, Dirk Lohan, FAIA of LOHAN ARCHITECTURE, pllc, and Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang reading from Edith Farnsworth's memoirs. Each speaker gave their own account of the different lives of the iconic Mies-designed house in suburban Chicago. They reappraised the architect-client relationship, revisited decades of private ownership, and brought us up to the present though 20 years of public stewardship. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and enriching event. A big thanks to our partners in program creation: the Mies van der Rohe Society, the Edith Farnsworth House, a National Trust for Historic Preservation Historic Site, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. #EdithFarnsworthHouse #Mies #BookTalk #preservation #Modernism
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