Join a leading mind in architecture, art, landscape, history, design, or preservation and experience the Glass House campus through an entirely new lens. Tour the site and Listen to a personal narrative, interpretation, or inspiration by a special guest while participating in a dialogue with an intimate group of visitors. Conclude the evening with a reception on the Glass House lawn. Conversations in Context take place Thursday evenings from 5:30-8:00pm.

2012 SCHEDULE OF HOSTS

May 17: Kenneth Frampton, Architect, Critic, Historian and Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation + Mark Wigley, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

June 21: Pedro Gadanho, Architect, Writer and Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, Marc Kushner + Matthias Hollwich, Co-Founders, HWKN, 2012 recipient of The Museum of Modern Art PS1 Young Architects Program

July 19: Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture and Founder and Senior Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects + Henry Urbach, Director, The Glass House

August 16: Michael Graves, Founding Principal, Michael Graves & Associates and Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, Princeton University

September 20: Gary Hilderbrand, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand and Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University + John Beardsley, Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks and Adjunct Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

October 4: Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture + Ph.D. Program Chair, School of Architecture, Princeton University, Director of the Media and Modernity Program, Princeton University + Felicity Scott, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Director of the Program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

October 11: Michael Maharam, Principal, Maharam + Paul Makovsky, Editorial Director, Metropolis Magazine

November 8: Murray Moss, Founder, Moss + Francois de Menil, Founder, FdM: Arch

Conversations in Context visitors are entitled to a membership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a 10% discount in the Glass House Store. $100 of this ticket purchase is tax-deductible and supports ongoing preservation and education efforts at the Glass House.

All ticket sales are final. No refunds or date exchanges will be issued.