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John Yeon Center's Watzek House Tour

Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Watzek House Portland, OR

Please join the University of Oregon’s John Yeon Center for a tour of Portland’s only National Historic Landmark residence, the Watzek House.

Upon the death of his father in the mid-1930s, lumberman and civic patron Aubrey Watzek commissioned the house so that his mother could move out from Davenport, Iowa and spend her remaining years with him. He commissioned a 25-year-old John Yeon to design it, and the rest is history. The house became an important inspiration for the Northwest Style of Modernism and for many generations of architects since, for its bold yet timeless synthesis of many traditions of residential architecture into a refined new language.  Published widely and exhibited repeatedly at Museum of Modern Art next to such icons as Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, the house has inspired and influenced generations of architects.

This exclusive tour is open only to 12 people. John Yeon Center director Randy Gragg and Blue Sky Gallery director Todd Tubutis will show you the house, the gardens, and a number of original vintage photographs of the home.

Light refreshments will be served.

Enjoy the spring awakening of the Watzek House and its gardens.

Presented by: University of Oregon's John Yeon Center

Ticket Information

May 30th | Show: 1pm
Watzek House | Portland

$30.00

Event Type

Tour, Portland

Departments

College of Design, UO Portland, College of Design: Portland

Target Audience

All Students, Faculty/Staff, General Public, Alumni

Website

https://aaa.uoregon.edu/yeoncenter/wa...

Cost

$30

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