Architecting Nature: Evolution of the Glass House Estate

Maureen Cassidy Geiger, MA, FSA, will consider the social, architectural and gardening evolution of the Glass House Estate.

Thursday, March 20

6 - 7 p.m. 

Architecture Sarasota

265 S Orange Ave

Sarasota, FL 34236

"To me the whole experience of what’s been labeled now all over the world “the glass house” is a misnomer. To me, the house is a park. To me, the whole experience is a park in which there are, indeed, monuments or occasions or accidents or things by nature and things that I’ve placed there that create a place."

– Philip Johnson (1906-2005)

World-renowned architect Philip Johnson's words convey the undeniable importance of the fifty-acre estate he assembled and tweaked over fifty years in partnership with curator and plantsman David Whitney. This talk will consider the social, architectural and gardening history of the property, and its evolution from five untamed acres to a carefully contrived ideal landscape that is the setting – and the view -- for The Glass House and its orbiting playground of Modernist follies constructed between 1946 and 2005.

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