Mid-Century Modern Bus Tour

Take a trip down the Valley to visit Pietro Belluschi, Alvar Aalto, and Frank Lloyd Wright!

Proceeds benefiting the Gordon House

Saturday, October 23

$50, includes lunch and wine at the Gordon House

Call the Gordon House at 503-874-6006 for reservations and information.

 

Do you marvel at mid-century modern movements? Have a passion for purposeful planning? Are you amazed by astonishing architecture? Join other architecture enthusiasts on October 23 for a tour down the Valley to see thte works of Alvar Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright. We meet in Portland at the MCM department at Rejuvenation on Grand Avenue.

The first bus stop on the tour will land you at the future site of the Belluschi Pavilion and Griffith Residence in Marylhurst where Tony Belluschi will tell you about Oregon's latest architectural vision. The next stop is the Abbey Library in Mount Angel, one of only two works in the United States designed by Scandinavian Modern architect Alvar Aalto. Continue on to the Gordon House located in Silverton - the only Frank Lloyd Wright designed house open to the public in the Pacific Northwest!

On your guided tour of the Gordon House you will discover how Frank Lloyd Wright implemented his design characteristics through the Usonian style to affect how his clients lived and were nurtured by the natural world around them. X