Join Maureen Cassidy-Geiger in the Mabel Louise Riley Seminar Room at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on Wednesday, July 20 at 6:30 for an illustrated presentation of her new book, The Philip Johnson Glass House: An Architect in the Garden. This is the first comprehensive history of the architect’s sublime 49-acre suburban estate, which evolved between 1946 and 2005, in partnership with David Whitney. Known chiefly for its iconic centerpiece, the site features a dozen Johnsonian follies, sculptures by Donald Judd and Julian Schnabel, three “antique” houses, and a pastoral landscape of meadows, marshland, mature trees, and historic rock walls. A magnet for architects, artists and high society, the Glass House was, at once, salon, showpiece, and laboratory. It was also a fertile setting for a succession of short-lived gardens designed and tended by Whitney over four decades.
Book signing follows in the MFA Bookstore & Shop. MFA member price $10, nonmembers $12. To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975; to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk. Online: http://www.mfa.org/programs/lecture/the-philip-johnson-glass-house-an-architect-in-the-garden
