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End: October 22, 2014
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Wednesday, October 22, 6:30–8 pm   Talk: Fire Island Modernist

$12 Member | $12 Student | $20 Non-member.

Between 1961 and 1981, Horace Gifford (1932–92) designed beach homes on New York’s Fire Island that reflected the “oasis of free love” of the pre-AIDS, post-Stonewall era. Christopher Rawlins, principal of New York-based Rawlins Design and author of Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction (Metropolis Books, 2013) chronicles the life of this largely-forgotten, complex architect whose body of work stands for a lost generation. A book signing follows the lecture. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition House & Home, which is open to program attendees prior to the lecture. 1.5 LU HSW (AIA)