Solution or Sacrilege | Overview
“Solution or Sacrilege” explored the viability for modern preservation in the 21st century and inaugurated the series of Glass House Conversations.
Architects and design thought leaders convened for a day and a half
intensive dialogue, addressing challenges and opportunities for
teaching, practicing and preserving modernism.
Architects
referenced their work that included houses, prefabrication
manufacturing, urban development projects, to transportation hubs and
historic airline terminals. The progressive canon of modernism was
sited as a reference for challenges of preserving these structures in
the 21st century. A great debate about integrating innovation in design
and materials in this new era of preservation resulted in consensus
that extensions, restorations and additional buildings referencing
historic structures needed to have new views and materials.
Several
participants are educators and connected the “Conversations” experience
with dialogues underway in schools of architecture, including
Cranbrook, Parsons and Harvard. Steven Heller, School of Visual Arts,
described how the “Conversations” program model would inspire the
development of a new graduate program at the School of Visual Arts.
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Oldcastle Glass is the
exclusive sponsor of Glass House
Conversations. |
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