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JEAN RENOUX
ART & ARCHITECTURAL TOURS
TOURS FOR LOVERS OF ARCHITECTURE, ART AND HISTORY
Jean,
Hadn't had an opportunity to talk to you since the lecture in Palm Beach. However, I have to tell you that your lecture was the best and most informative presentation on Antonio Gaudi that I've ever encounter. Furthermore, all of your slide presentations about public housing were absolutely top quality.
May the Gods of Architecture and Design smile upon your soul.
Cordially,
Hernando Carrillo,
Architect, Miami
April 5, 2011
IN MY HOUSE IN SARASOTA
January 26, 2012 9am to 1pm
Mid Century Modern & the Sarasota School of Architecture Movement
4 HSW/Sustainable Design course: $82
See what the late 40s and the fifties brought to the Florida’s architecture:
Cross ventilation, overhangs, natural lighting, the sliding glass doors, the lanai, and finally
air conditioning.
Florida Modern architecture was based on many European concept from Gropius, van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Neutra and even Wright. Exciting, beautiful, simple and in some instance even green before its time.
Comments from the few
people who went with me to
Berlin/ Dessau/ Wolfsburg/Potsdam/ Berlin
September 18 to 28, 2011;
Best trip ever
From Robert & Natly Esnard,
(7 trips with me)
Boris & Paz Baaranovich
(7 trips with me)
Peter & Dorothy Magnani
(5 trips with me)
Elsa Williams
(5 trips with me)
DON’T MISS THAT ONE in 2012.
New classes in SARASOTA and more webinars (SCROLL DOWN), BECAUSE, people like them once they try them. Shouldn’t you try one of them too? See my new tours for 2012.
2 to 4 PM January 26 and 27, 2012
2 HSW/Sustainable Design course: $ 38
IN MY HOUSE IN SARASOTA
Lime stuccoes and lime finishes: Venetian plasters, lime washes
and Tadelakt
Why is it that lime is not used in Florida as much as it should when it is an 9,000 years technology that has proven its advantages, especially in humid climates, in places exposed to salt and in areas prone to mold? Why is that the Egyptians, Greeks, the Romans, the people building the great cathedrals of Europe and Palladio used lime and we don’t?
Are we so brain-washed that we won’t even look into the qualities of a natural products that can really be called green, contrary to a lot of chemical stuffs that do not do the job and do pollute or are toxic to the people using them or living and working in their proximity.
Learn about the fabulous Moroccan finishes called Tadelakt. Hundred of years of experience in the most humid conditions.
Take 2 courses = 6 Health Safety Welfare /Sustainable Design = $ 108
including a cruise on
the newest mid-size luxury ship at sea, the “MARINA.”
Athens to Barcelona
with stops in Sorrento/Capri, Rome,
one night in Tuscany (San Gimmignano),
Marseilles (Le Corbusier’s Cite Radieuse)
and Barcelona (2 nights).
NOVEMBER 6 to 17 2012
A lot of great trips for 2012
Puglia and Dubrovnik/Zagreb
Puglia is soon to be “more” discovered by tourists. Go now before it becomes really fashionable.
By ferry from Bari to Dubrovnik, the largest walled city in Europe. Absolutely gorgeous. And finish the trip in Zagreb, a beautiful city, worth a visit.
Malta and Sicily
Two mystic Island, with an incredibly long history. Diversified architecture with some incredible gems. You will love the food and the wines. They deserve to be discovered.
May 4 to 13 and October 4 to 13
Berlin/ Dessau/Wolfsburg/Potsdam
Look at the pictures of 2011 trip. It was fantastic.
Amazing architecture from classical to modern, a visit to the roots of modernism, Berlin music capital, advanced technologies in energy, special visits to places where tourists don’t go. Some amazing art museums.
Again, I repeat, a fabulous trip.
Alsace - Ronchamp Chapel - Zurich -
Spa at Vals - Vitra factory
From the quaint Alsatian architecture to one of the most important building of the 20th Century PLUS
9 Pritzker Prize Winners,
Peter Verscht’s amazing covered houses,
the largest collection of contemporary and 20th Century furniture in the world,
and 2 days in the Peter Zumthor Spa at Vals.
MID CENTURY MODERN AND THE SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT
& PAUL RUDOLPH
A modernist movement that was ahead of its time and put Sarasota on an architectural world map. New technologies and materials were invented and tested there.
A great period (1947-1961) of Florida's architectural history. With great furniture to boot!
4 HSW-LU- Sustainable Design 4 HSW CEU $ 78
Thursday February 2 - 9 - 16 from 9 AM to 1 PM
Lime, Venetian Plasters & Moroccan Tadelakt
Great non toxic, good for the environment, really green finishes for inside or out.
2 HSW-LU-Sustainable Design 2 HSW CEU $ 38
February 1, 2 , 8, 9, 15, 16 from 2 PM to 4 PM
LECTURES (non credit) .
ART CENTER SARASOTA
707 North Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34236
941-365-2032
February 12 - 6:00 to 7:45 PM
German Expressionism
LONGBOAT KEY EDUCATION CENTER
5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key,
941-383-8811
January 18, 2012 - 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Jewish artists in Paris in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century
Part 1
January 25, 2012 - 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Jewish artists in Paris in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century
Part 2
Provence - Paris
Avignon, the beautiful villages of Provence, the camargue, van Gogh in Saint-Remy, great wines, superb food, Kodak moments landscapes.
Two great antiques markets.
7 nights in Provence - 4 Nights in Paris.
August 31 - September 12
WEBINARS
Live dangerously! Try one from the comfort of your home or office.
You only need a computer (Windows or MAC) with sound. That’s it.
Be curious. You never know, you may like it.
Palladio's Times
Learning about one of the greatest architect of all times and his influence on our design. Even the Capitol in DC was inspired by him.
4 HSW-LU- Sustainable Design 4 HSW CEU $ 78
Wednesday February 1 - 8 - 15 from 9 AM to 1 PM
Jean’ s tours are guided tours. The groups are small, from 6 to 12 participants.
We travel in comfort and stay in very nice hotels. Many meals are included as well
as whatever sites we visit, guides’ fees, tips, taxes, books and maps. I am also
the only tour operator offering systematically accidental/medical/lost luggage insurance
on all the tours.
I also created and guide private tours anywhere anyone wants to
go. For one couple, a single person or a group of 32. Just tell me where you want
to go and how small or big your group will be. For example, I am taking 16 members
of the same family throughout Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany in June. I can
do the same for you.
For a fee, I can create a very tailored trip for you and your family or your friends to anywhere, so you won’t waste time wondering about what to do rather than wandering around beautiful places. Everything will be planned so you are experiencing a non-stressful vacation, with the possibility to change the program anytime you feel like it.
You have a choice: organized planned guided tours or guided private tours or planned on your own tour.
And if you are an architect or a designer, on all the guided tours you will get Continuing Education Credits. See you soon, Jean
About Jean’s tours
ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE PART 1 - 9 HSW- SD LUs/CEUs
First chapter is 4:30 hr - January 20 from 9 AM to 2:30 PM
Second Chapter is 4:30 hr - January 24th from 9 AM to 2:30 PM
ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE PART 2 - 9 HSW- SD LUs/CEUs
First chapter is 4:30 hr - January 26 from 9 AM to 2:30 PM
Second Chapter is 4:30 hr - February 3 from 9 AM to 2:30 PM
$ 340 for both Parts (4 chapters) or $ 180 for any one part (2 chapters)
Alvar Aalto - Anton Alberts - Laurie Baker - Claude Bragdon - Nari Gandhi - Antoni Gaudi - Bruce Goff - Neville Gruzman
Hugo Häring - Hundertwasser - Kendrick Bangs Kellogg - John Lautner- Imre Makovecz - Eero Saarinen - Hans Scharoun
Gustav Stickley - Louis Sullivan - Rudolf Steiner - Frank Lloyd Wright - Bruno Zevi and many others.
An architecture that wanted to be green before it became the new fad, an architecture that is human, an architecture exciting, filled with surprises, imagination and beauty.
Because the lectures on
January 18 and 25 are oversold, they will be repeated on
January 21 (PART 1)
and January 30 (PART 2).
CLICK HERE to look at the pictures of the BERLIN - DESSAU - WOLFSBURG - MAGDEBURG - POTSDAM tour
that ended September 28, 2011. This tour will be repeated in 2012.
IN MY HOUSE IN SARASOTA
January 27, 2012 9am to 1pm
Palladio's Times
Learning about one of the greatest architect of all times and his influence on our design. Even the Capitol in DC was inspired by him.
4 HSW-LU- Sustainable Design 4 HSW CEU $ 78