Icons at Risk
Icons at Risk is an international initiative to preserve the world’s most endangered modern houses of unique architectural importance, following in the footsteps of the Iconic Houses network for house museums. Many of the world’s most iconic modern homes are being lost due – largely – to being as yet unrecognized as ‘heritage’. Those from the second half of the 20th century are especially vulnerable, lacking any legislative protection. We need to act now, or risk losing them forever. What can be done to save them? Icons at Risk sets out to answer that question. In this fresh endeavor, efforts focus on the rapidly vanishing, at-risk sector of new heritage. Raising public awareness and supporting house owners to take action are the main ways in which Icons at Risk will aim to slow the loss of important 20th-century homes.
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60 Hornton Street
Architect: James Melvin
Year of completion: 1969
Location: London, United Kingdom
Abrams House
Architects: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Year of completion: 1992
Location: Pittsburgh, MA, USA
Airey system houses
Architect: J. F. Berghoef
Year of completion: 1950s
Location: Zeist, Netherlands
Alpern Residence
Architect: Edgar Tafel
Year of completion: 1950
Location: Scarsdale, NY, USA
Ataköy Housing Estate, Phases I-II
Architect(s): Baruthane Project Office, dir. Ertuğrul Menteşe, consultant Luigi Piccinato
Year of completion: 1964
Location: Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Bavinger House
Architect: Bruce Goff
Year of completion: 1950
Location: Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Bernat Klein Studio
Architect: Peter Womersley
Year of completion: 1972
Location: Selkirk, United Kingdom
Casa Gomis/La Ricarda
Architect: Antonio Bonet Castellana
Year of completion: 1949-1963
Location: El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Booth Cottage
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Year of completion: 1913
Location: Glencoe, Illinois, USA
Casa del Puente
Architects: Amancio Williams and Delfina Gálvez Bunge de Williams
Year of completion: 1945
Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
Casa Guzman
Architect: Alejandro de la Sota
Year of completion: 1972
Location: Algete, Madrid, Spain
Casa Sperimentale
Architects: Giuseppe Perugini, Uga De Plaisant, Raynaldo Perugini
Design and Construction: 1968-1975
Location: Fregene, Italy
Casa Van der Driesche
Architects: José Antonio Martínez Lapeña and Elías Torres
Year of completion: 1973
Location: San Josep, Ibiza, Spain
A. Conger Goodyear House
Architect: Edward Durell Stone
Year of completion: 1938
Location: Old Westbury, NY, USA
Conlon Nancarrow Home
Architect: Juan O’Gorman
Year of completion: 1940
Location: Mexico-City, Mexico
Connell House
Architect: Richard Neutra
Year of completion: 1958
Location: Pebble Beach, CA, USA
Edificio Holiday
Architect: Joaquim Rodrigues
Year of completion: 1956
Location: Recife, Brazil
Forrest-Baker House
Architects: Ron Thom with Dick Mann
Year of completion: 1962
Location: West Vancouver, BC, Canada
Garden City La Butte Rouge
Architects: Joseph Bassompiere and Paul de Rutte
Year of construction: 1931-1965
Location: Châtenay-Malabry, (Hauts-de-Seine), France
Jacobs House
Architect: Frederick Stahl
Year of completion: 1968
Location: Nantucket, MA, USA
Kohlberg House
Architect: Luther Crowell
Year of completion: 1961
Location: Wellfleet, MA, USA
Largent House
Architect: Richard Neutra
Year of completion: 1936
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Maison Binotto
Architect: Serge Binotto
Year of completion: 1969
Location: Mirepoix, Ariège, France
Maslon House
Architect: Richard Neutra
Year of completion: 1963
Location: Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
Monsanto House of the Future
Architects: Richard Hamilton and Marvin Goody
Year of completion: 1957
Location: Tomorrowland (Disneyland) Anaheim, CA, USA
Nakagin Capsule Tower
Architect: Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates
Year of completion: 1972
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Paul Stevens House
Architect: Paul Stevens
Year of completion: 1933
Location: Herent (sub municipality Winksele), Belgium
Pearlroth House
Architect: Andrew Geller
Year of completion: 1956
Location: Long Island, NY, USA
Rachel Raymond House
Architect: Eleanor Raymond
Year of completion: 1931
Location: Belmont, MA, USA
Reeuwijk Housing Project
Architect: Gerrit Rietveld
Year of completion: 1959
Location: Reewijk-Brug, The Netherlands
Robin Hood Gardens
Architects: Alison & Peter Smithson
Year of completion: 1972
Location: London, United Kingdom
Sirius Building
Architect: Theo (Tao) Gofers
Year of completion: 1980
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Steimel House
Architect: Oswald Matthias Ungers
Year of completion: 1962
Location: Hennef (Sieg), Germany
Vann Molyvann’s House
Architect: Vann Molyvann
Year of completion: 1970
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Villa Beer
Architects: Josef Frank and Oskar Wlach
Year of completion: 1930
Location: Vienna, Austria
Villa Cavrois
Architect: Robert Mallet-Stevens
Year of completion: 1932
Location: Croix, France
Villa E-1027
Architect: Eileen Gray
Year of completion: 1929
Location: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
Villa dei Direttori
Architect: Renzo Zavanella
Year of completion: 1932
Location: Sermide, Mantua, Italy
Villa Girasole
Architects: Angelo Invernizzi a.o.
Year of completion: 1935
Location: Marcellise, Italy
Von Sternberg House
Architect: Richard Neutra
Year of completion: 1936
Location: Northridge, CA, USA
Willert Park Courts
Architect: Frederick C. Backus
Year of completion: 1939
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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WATCH LISTS - INTERNATIONAL
DOCOMOMO International MoMo at Risk - Heritage
Iconic Houses Icons at Risk
SOS Brutalism
World Monuments Fund World Monuments Watch
WATCH LISTS - NATIONAL
Australia
Docomomo Australia Buildings at Risk
Austria
Docomoco Austria Bedrohte Bauten
Belgium
Docomomo Belgium At Risk
Canada
West Coast Modern League Watch List
Germany
Docomomo Germany Bedrohte Bauten
Switzerland
Docomoco Switzerland Patrimoine en danger
United Kingdom
Historic Environment Scotland Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland
Historic England Heritage at Risk Register
The Twentieth Century Society - C20 Buildings at risk
USA
Docomomo New York/Tri-state Advocacy agenda
Docomomo US Threatened sites
National Trust for Historic Preservation America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
USModernist.org is active in general advocacy but doesn’t have a specific section on its website devoted to the at-risk buildings, but alerts its followers through its newsletters.
Icons at Risk is an initiative of the Iconic Houses Foundation
The Steering Committee includes:
* Natascha Drabbe, Architectural Historian and Executive Director/Founder Iconic Houses Network (Netherlands)
* Fiona Fisher, Curator, Dorich House Museum/Researcher, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London (UK)
* Janice Lyle, Director Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage (USA)
* Chandler McCoy, Senior Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute (USA)
The International Peer Review Group includes:
* Iveta Černá, Director Villla Tugendhat (Czech Republic)
* Catherine Croft, Director 20th Century Society (UK)
* Fabio Grementieri, member of the National Commission of Monuments of Argentina, and Head of the Preservation Program at Torcuato Di Tella University (Argentina)
* George Smart, Founder USModernist.org (USA)
* Jyoti Somerville, GML Heritage Associate, architectural conservation expert with over 30 years' experience in built heritage conservation (Australia)
* Lynda S. Waggoner, Director Emerita Fallingwater (USA)
We are thankful for the research by Kristen Munchheimer, Graduate Intern (2018-2019) Getty Conservation Institute and Moriah Schnose, Administrative Coordinator for Retreats at Sunnylands. Most of the content related to Casa Sperimentale is based on research by Patrick Weber, Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London and Sabine Storp as part of their programme at Bartlett School of Architecture.