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PITTSBURGH Art & Architecture in the Steel City with David J September 10–14, 2021 PITTSBURGH Art & Architecture in the Steel City with David J. Vater, RA Fallingwater Sunset at the West End Overlook / Jiuguang Wang PITTSBURGH: Art & Architecture in the Steel City September 10–14, 2021 This National Trust tour highlights the exceptional art and architecture of Pittsburgh, a 21st-century “Rust Belt” success story. Pittsburgh was the unquestioned steel capital of the world for most of the 20th century, and the resulting wealth produced a great cultural heritage with impressive architecture from the late 1800s and early 1900s still surviving. Even when the American steel industry collapsed in the 1970s and 1980s, Pittsburgh managed to reinvent itself as a leader in scientific and medical research. The result is a surprisingly young and vibrant city, with new architecture also well worth discovering. (left) The towering Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh was built in the 1920s and 1930s as a beacon for education and an homage to the ‘Old World’ cultural roots of the city’s immigrant population represented in its uniquely designed and decorated Nationality Rooms. / Jiuguang Wang Travel with DAVID J. VATER, RA David Vater is a Pittsburgh native and his ancestors have lived in the region since the 1830s. He is president of his own architectural firm and has served on the Board of Directors of the AIA Pittsburgh’s Foundation for Architecture, the Friends of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, the Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline, and Chatham Village Homes, Inc. In 1998 he authored the nomination that put Chatham Village Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places and assisted with the additional research that made it a National Historic Landmark in 2005. He has been a member of the National Trust since 1978 and served on the National Trust 2006 (Pittsburgh) Convention Committee. ITINERARY Architectural Detail in Pittsburgh (Fifth Ave. and Grant St.) / Allie Caulfield FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 with its dramatic stained its renowned collection Steel City Architecture glass dome skylight; and of impressionist art. End several other architecturally the day with a leisurely Transfer independently to important sites. Tonight, get late afternoon cruise on a the elegant Omni William to know fellow travelers over a specially chartered riverboat Penn Hotel, a property delicious welcome dinner at a along Pittsburgh’s famed of the National Trust’s historic private social club. (D) three rivers (pending river Historic Hotels of America conditions) and hear about program, with a perfect SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 the city’s fascinating industrial location in Pittsburgh’s Cultural Gems heritage and its dynamic Central Downtown Historic & River Cruise revitalization. (B, L) District. Set out on a late- afternoon walking tour Begin the day with a stroll SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 with Study Leader David through the University of The Gilded Age Vater, an architect and Pittsburgh’s urban campus & Historic Home a Pittsburgh native who and visit the graceful Heinz has been active in local Chapel and the soaring Spend the morning at The preservation efforts. Explore Cathedral of Learning, both Frick Pittsburgh, a complex the architectural highlights grand examples of the Gothic of museums and historical of historic Grant Street and Revival architectural style buildings centered around the area surrounding your with which Pittsburgh is Clayton, the former home of hotel. Stop at Henry Hobson strongly associated. Tour industrialist and art collector Richardson’s Allegheny the Cathedral of Learning’s Henry Clay Frick. Take a County Courthouse, designed distinctive Nationality Rooms, docent-led tour of Clayton, with the classic symmetry of each designed to represent a wonderfully preserved the Renaissance; the Frick an 18th-century classroom in example of Gilded Age Building, where the lobby a different country in honor architecture and one of features John LaFarge’s of the diverse immigrant the few intact homes from masterful stained glass work communities that settled Pittsburgh’s lost “Millionaire’s “Fortune and Her Wheel”; in Pittsburgh. Following Row.” Enjoy time to wander the Pittsburgh City-County lunch at a historic property, through the lush gardens Building, featuring intricate tile take a highlight tour of the and explore the nearby Frick work by Rafael Guastavino; Carnegie Museum of Art Art Museum or the Car and the Union Trust Building, including its Hall of Sculpture, Carriage Museum. Drive by Hall of Architecture, and the National Negro Opera Company House—home to MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 this timeless monument to the first African-American Kentuck Knob organic architecture and opera company in the United hear the stories and learn & Fallingwater States and recently placed about the techniques behind on the National Trust for Take a day trip into the this massive architectural Historic Preservation’s list of beautiful Laurel Highlands achievement. Wright also America’s Most Endangered of western Pennsylvania to custom-designed all of the Historic Places—and hear explore two brilliant creations house’s furniture, which is still about local efforts to honor of Frank Lloyd Wright. Begin intact. Return to Pittsburgh the building’s legacy. This at Kentuck Knob, a Usonian and reconvene in the evening afternoon, be welcomed into home designed by Wright for a festive farewell dinner one of the Pittsburgh area’s in 1953 built using native at an award-winning local most gracious private historic sandstone and red cypress restaurant. (B, D) homes, opened exclusively to blend harmoniously TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 for the National Trust. Enjoy a into the surrounding hills. catered lunch with the owners, Tour the house and then Departures explore the grounds, dotted who will discuss the house’s Transfer independently to the with sculptures by Andy history and the extensive airport for return flights home. Goldsworthy, Anthony renovations they have made (B) to return it to its original Caro, Claes Oldenburg, grandeur. En route back to the and Wendy Taylor, among HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: hotel, stop for a picturesque others. Continue to Wright’s Omni William Penn Hotel ride on the Duquesne Incline, breathtaking Fallingwater, an icon of 20th-century Stay four nights at Pittsburgh’s elegant which began operations Omni William Penn Hotel. Designed in 1877. Disembark atop architecture and a UNESCO in a Renaissance Revival style, the Mount Washington for World Heritage Site, featuring hotel opened in 1916 and was the last a bold system of cantilevered building venture of industrialist Henry stunning panoramic views of Clay Frick. After a multi-million-dollar Pittsburgh’s dramatic skyline terraces built directly over renovation, the hotel offers Old World and the convergence of the a cascading waterfall. charm with modern touches, award- three rivers below. (B, L) Take a docent-led tour of winning dining options, and traditional afternoon tea service. Downtown Pittsburgh from the Duquesne Incline Observation Deck / Jiuguang Wang PITTSBURGH Art & Architecture in the Steel City September 10–14, 2021 Tour Information PITTSBURGH: Terms and Conditions: Upon receipt of Art & Architecture in the Steel City registration, ISDI will send registrant a Participant Tour Agreement detailing the Dates: September 10–14, 2021 full terms and conditions for this tour. This document must be signed and returned Tour Cost: to ISDI before participant’s registration is Land Package ......... $3,195 considered complete and any arrangements Single Supplement .....$595 can be confirmed. *Tour price is per person based on double occupancy, Cancellations & Refunds: Cancellation by with a minimum of 15 paying participants. participant must be made in writing to ISDI and is effective only upon acknowledged Activity Level: Moderate, good overall receipt by ISDI. There is a non-refundable mobility required. registration and planning fee of $500 per Deposit & Final Payment: A deposit of $1,000 person regardless of cancellation date. per registrant is required to reserve space on Written cancellation received by ISDI on the tour, of which $500 is nonrefundable for or before June 2, 2021: full refund minus ISDI’s registration and planning fee unless the $500 per person registration and planning tour is cancelled due to low enrollment. This fee. Written cancellation received by ISDI deposit may be paid by check or by Visa or between June 3 and July 27, 2021: full MasterCard. Final balance will be invoiced refund minus $1,600 per person cancellation and is due on June 2, 2021 and must be paid fee (includes registration and planning by check to International Seminar Design, fee). Written cancellation received by ISDI Inc. Registrations are accepted after this date on or after July 28, 2021: no refund. Tour on a space-available basis with payment in registration is non-transferable. In the case of full by check only. cancellation, substitutions are not allowed. After the tour has commenced, no refunds Flights: Airfare is not included in the tour will be issued for any reason including, but price. Participants are responsible for their not limited to, unused portions of tour. If the own air arrangements. Please do not purchase tour is cancelled by ISDI or National Trust airline tickets until the operation of the tour is Tours due to low enrollment, active registrants confirmed by ISDI. will receive a full refund of all tour payments. Tour Inclusions: 4 nights at the Omni William Travel Insurance: Travel Insurance is not Penn Hotel; breakfast daily, 2 lunches, 2 included in the tour cost, but participants dinners, 2 glasses of wine or beer at included are strongly encouraged to purchase a travel dinners; land transportation by private coach; protection plan in conjunction with this entrance fees to sites and visits listed in the tour, including coverage of trip cancellation, itinerary; services of an ISDI Tour Manager; trip interruption, emergency evacuation/ expert local guides; gratuities for local guides repatriation, medical expenses, lost or and drivers and at included meals; bottled damaged baggage, and other expenses and/or water on coach; service charges and taxes.
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