July 2013

Michigan Modern Lecture Series

MICHIGAN MODERN LECTURE SERIES
Sponsored by Cranbrook Art Museum and the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research in association with the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office

Where: deSalle Auditorium
Cranbrook Art Museum
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Lectures are included with regular Museum Admission

Sunday, September 15, 4:00pm: Leslie S. Edwards, Head Archivist, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, “Competition, Collaboration, and Connection: Cranbrook in 1939”

Sunday, September 22, 4:00pm: Craig McDonald, Director, Alden B. Dow Home and Studio, “Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern”

Sunday, September 29, 4:00pm: Rip Rapson, President and CEO, The Kresge Foundation, “Ralph Rapson: A Son’s Perspective of a Pioneering Modernist”

Sunday, October 6, 4:00pm: Eric Hill, Professor of Practice in Architecture, University of Michigan, “Michigan Modern: The National Context”

Sunday, October 13, 4:00pm: Dale Gyure, Professor of Architecture, Lawrence Technological University, “Serenity and Delight: The Architectural Humanism of Minoru Yamasaki”

a2modern gives tour for Michigan Modern Symposium

Nancy Bartlett at Bentley Library
[Nancy Bartlett, archivist, speaks to the Michigan Modern group June 16th in the reading room of the Bentley Historical Library, U-M]

In conjunction with the Design that Shaped America Symposium, a2modern gave a day-long tour on June 16th starting at the Bentley Historical Library and ending at the Frank Lloyd Wright Palmer House. Many thanks to several that helped on the tour (Nancy Bartlett, Anthony Timek, Grace Shackman, Nancy Deromedi, Juliana Cerra, Gary and Sue Cox); to the Bentley Library; and to the homeowners that opened their homes: Bob Metcalf, Glenn Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Daane and Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Cox. We also would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. David Osler and Molly Osler for being at the Osler designed home to provide personal insight.

Anthony Timek gives North Campus tour[Anthony leading tour of Saarinen’s North Campus plan June 16th, 2013 as part of the Michigan Modern Symposium]

We had a great day and met enthusiasts from throughout the country including Tyler Merkel who is raising the awareness of West Michigan’s Modern Architecture and Design. See his blog Mid-Century Michigan.

Frank Lloyd Wright at Twilight: a few spaces still available!

Frank Lloyd Wright at Twilight

flw_goetsch_winckler

Thursday, July 18, 2013
A rare chance to visit the Wright-designed Goetsch-Winckler House in Okemos
fundraiser for the Michigan State University Museum, the science and culture museum at MSU

in conjunction with the special exhibit, “East Lansing Modern, 1940-1970,” at the MSU Museum through Aug. 18.
The Goetsch-Winckler House in Okemos, Mich., is a compact, one-story Usonian house with signature Frank Lloyd Wright design elements: organic relationship to the site, horizontal planes, cantilever roofs, and the embodiment of Wright’s early design philosophy for moderately priced housing.
Designed for MSU art professors, the Goetsch-Winckler House is on the National Register of Historic Places and is the second of Wright’s Usonian house designs.

5:30 – 8 p.m.
Refreshments – tours – meet the homeowners

6:45 — “A Modest, Modern Masterpiece,” with Dr. Susan J. Bandes, Exhibition Curator and MSU Professor of Art History & Visual Culture

Location:
2410 Hulett Rd., Okemos (parking instructions to follow)

$50 per person
Space is limited.
Register online at our secure site: https://commerce.cashnet.com/msu_3722

Or send check to:
MSU Museum
c/o Goetsch-Winckler House Tour
409 W. Circle Drive
East Lansing, Mich. 48824
(Please include names of attendees)

Questions:
(517) 355-2370

East Lansing Modern exhibition page:
http://museum.msu.edu/?q=node/987

Read more about the home at the Michigan Modern web site:
http://michiganmodern.org/architects-designers-firms/architects/frank-lloyd-wright/goetsch-winckler-house/