Grand Homes & Gardens Mid-Century Modern Philip Johnson, David Whitney Evolution of the Glass House

Name: Grand Homes & Gardens Mid-Century Modern Philip Johnson, David Whitney Evolution of the Glass House
Start: 2025-03-05T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-05T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 55 Stockton St, Princeton, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08540

Schedule

Wed Mar 05 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

55 Stockton St, Princeton, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08540 | Princeton, NJ

This is the second program in the 2025 Grand Homes and Gardens Speaker Series, The Quality of Doing: Mid-Century Modern Grand Homes & Gardens, hosted by Morven Museum & garden, featuring four scholars who will look at the work of Mid-Century Modern architects and designers through the lens of landmark homes and gardens across the United States. Learn more about the series and purchase series tickets: https://www.morven.org/upcoming/grandhomes25series
"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.
Preregistration is required to attend. Purchase tickets here: https://www.morven.org/upcoming/glasshouse
All talks begin at 6:30 p.m. in Morven’s Stockton Education Center. Doors and the virtual waiting room open at 6:00 p.m. A Zoom link will be sent to all virtual participants upon registration. Light refreshments inspired by each site will be provided for in-person attendees.
Image: The Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Designed by architect Philip Johnson. Library of Congress Public Domain Image Collection.