About Preserve the Modern

Preserve the Modern is an initiative led by the Philip Johnson Glass House to focus attention and resources on our nation’s collection of significant Modern buildings in order to document, preserve and protect them. This forum will allow a network of modernists around the world to share their travel experiences visiting modern structures in our region, across the United States, and around the globe. By sharing these modernist travel experiences we aim to raise awareness of these structures as important representations of ideas, lifestyles, as well as cultural and political events that transformed the twentieth century.

Friday, July 13, 2007

I spent the majority of today planning visits to Le Corbusier sites in and around Paris. Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) is considered by some to be the father of modern architecture and was very active in Île-de-France (the region of France that encompasses Paris), designing many homes, apartment buildings and offices. On my list of must-see Le Corbusier sites are Villa Savoye, Villa Stein, Villa la Roche, Villa Jeanneret and Immeuble Molitor, all of which are either in Paris or can be visited after a quick trip on the RER – a network of trains running to the Parisian suburbs. I am also hoping to see Le Corbusier’s Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp France, near the Swiss border. I have been told that this a long day trip but definitely worth the effort.

Here is a link to the Le Corbusier Foundation website: www.fondationlecorbusier.asso.fr

On another note, tomorrow is Bastille Day, celebrating the beginning of the French Revolution. Red, blue and white banners are everywhere and all of the local supermarkets are running out of wine, so I am sure it is going to be a “festive” night.

-Ian
Philip Johnson Glass House Intern
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