BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1111@sparkhamptons.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260823T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260823T170000 DTSTAMP:20260729T183225Z URL:https://sparkhamptons.com/events/li-modern-funky-modernist-andrew-gell er SUMMARY:LI Modern: Funky Modernist: Andrew Geller DESCRIPTION:Andrew Geller (1924-2011) created his own highly individual and everyman form of the modern American beach house. Many of his most notabl e works were built on eastern Long Island and Fire Island. They were small \, affordable\, low maintenance and came with whimsical names like the “ Box Kite\,” “Raspberry Basket” and “Square Brassiere.” Alastair Gordon features Geller’s work prominently in both editions of his book W eekend Utopia.\n\nAbout Alastair Gordon\n\nAlastair Gordon is an award-win ning critic\, curator\, cultural historian and author. For more than twent y years\, he wrote on art\, architecture and the environment for the New Y ork Times and in 2008 became Contributing Editor on design for WSJ.\, the Wall Street Journal Magazine\, as well as launching and producing the popu lar “Wall-to-Wall” design blog on the Journal’s web site. Gordon’s essays have been published in many other publications including Architect ural Digest\, Vanity Fair\, Le Monde\, Architectural Record\, New York Obs erver\, House &\; Garden and Dwell. From 2014 to 2019 he was the archit ecture/design critic for the Miami Herald\, and in 2020 launched the Poeti cs of Place(POP) podcast series. In addition to his critical journalism\, Gordon has published more than 28 books on art\, architecture and environm ent\, including such critically acclaimed titles as Weekend Utopia\, Naked Airport\, Spaced Out\, Theater of Shopping\, Arquitectonica\, Romantic Mo dernist and Wandering Forms. See “Books”. In 2016\, he launched a crit ical writing program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design a nd has taught and lectured at many other institutions. Earlier in his care er\, Gordon was General Editor of The Princeton Papers on Architecture and served as the Robert Lehman Curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Southamp ton\, N.Y. He has received numerous prizes for his critical journalism and received a special citation for ‘Excellence in Criticism’ from the Am erican Institute of Architects. Alastair is Co-Founder and Editorial Direc tor of Gordon de Vries Studio\, an imprint that specializes in books about the human environment. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sparkhamptons.com/wp-content/uploads/202 6/07/Modernist.jpg CATEGORIES:Arts & Entertainment LOCATION:LongHouse Reserve\, 133 Hands Creek Rd\, East Hampton\, NY\, 11937 \, East Hampton\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=133 Hands Creek Rd\, East H ampton\, NY\, 11937\, East Hampton\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=LongHouse Reserve:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR