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Fire Island Modernist

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PUB_fire-island.jpgBetween 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)

$12 Members; $12 Students; $20 Non-members. Prepaid registration required. Walk-in registration based on availability.

Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Registration is for event planning purposes only and does not guarantee a seat. Online registration for Museum programs closes at midnight the day before the scheduled program.

The Museum's award-winning Shop and Firehook Café are open for one hour prior to the start of the program. Shop and Café hours are subject to change.

Photo: Fishman House, Fire Island Pines, NY, 1965. Courtesy Christopher Rawlins.

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Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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