Aspen Art Museum

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Join architect Andrew Heid for a conversation around his new book Glass Houses. The text brings together a collection of 50 spectacular houses built almost entirely from glass. Heid’s talk will focus on the dynamic ways these structures both integrate and embody nature, spiritual harmony, and pictorial framing into their very formation. The text’s international selection includes classic early modernist houses from the 1930s, such as Philip Johnson’s Glass House and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, and glamorous mid-century LA villas like Pierre Koenig’s Case Study #22, alongside outstanding contemporary examples, where new innovations have made even more daring glass structures possible.

The book features architects including Tatiana Bilbao, Lina Bo Bardi, Ofis Arhitekti, Herzog & de Meuron, Hiroshi Nakamura, Kazuyo Sejima, Philip Johnson, Mecanoo, John Lautner, Office KGDVS, Richard Rogers, among others.

Andrew Heid is the founding design principal of NO ARCHITECTURE. A licensed architect, Andrew Heid studied architecture at Yale University, the Architectural Association, and Princeton University. Prior to founding NO ARCHITECTURE in 2014, Andrew gained architectural design experience at REX and OMA in New York and Rotterdam. Andrew is currently Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard GSD and visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and previously taught at New York Institute of Technology and Columbia University.