Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner: Fantasies and Daydreaming
Saturday, August 2, 2025 | 5:00 PM
Concert at the Fly's Eye Dome

Tickets:
Concert + Reception: $125 Members | $150 non-members
Concert, Reception + Intimate Garden Dinner: $400 (Limited to 40 guests)

Virtuoso pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner returns to LongHouse for an evocative open-air performance in front of the iconic Fly’s Eye Dome. His program, Fantasies and Daydreaming, is a journey through imagination and memory, featuring works by Ravel, Bach, Chopin, Meredith Monk, Gershwin, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

From the playful rhythms of Gershwin’s Preludes to the introspective beauty of Chopin’s Nocturne, the afternoon promises lyrical reverie and dazzling technique. Highlights include Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, and Monk’s poignant Ellis Island.

Surrounded by art, nature, and the serenity of our gardens, experience music in sanctuary—where sound, spirit, and setting come together in harmony.

LONGHOUSE LANDSCAPE LEGENDS
Modernist Landscapes: Visionaries and Their Gardens
Saturday, August 16, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Barry Bergdoll | Caleb Smith | William Whitaker

SCHEDULE
9:30-10:00am:  Morning reception
10:00-10:45am: Barry Bergdoll Abstraction and Nature: Gardens in the Work of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier
10:45-11:30am: Garden walks and nibbles
11:30am-12:15pm: Bill Whitaker on Harriet Pattison
12:15pm-1:30pm: Caleb Smith A Modern Mystic: Art and Nature in the Gardens of Russell Page, followed by a conversation with Deborah Nevins
1:30pm: Lunch in the garden

Join us at LongHouse for our annual landscape lecture event, a captivating day of talks exploring the intersection of modernist architecture, landscape design, and cultural history. This year, our special event features renowned scholars Barry Bergdoll, Professor of Art History at Columbia University; Caleb Smith, Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, and William Whitaker, Curator and Collections Manager of the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. 

Bergdoll will speak about the landscape visions of iconic modernist architects Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, examining how they considered gardens to extend their vision. Whitaker will speak on Harriet Pattison, the influential landscape designer who, among other notable projects, collaborated on the masterful landscape at The FDR Memorial on Roosevelt Island and the Kimbell Art Museum, which features prominently in her book Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn (2020). Smith will offer an illuminating perspective on the work of Russell Page, reflecting on how the celebrated garden designer’s sensibility bridged classical traditions with modernist innovation. Page recorded his observations and practice in his masterpiece The Education of a Gardener (1962). Set within the modernist setting of LongHouse, our event promises to enrich our understanding of landscape in its relationship to modernism. The LongHouse Landscape Legends program focuses on landscape and design, art and architecture. Designed by Jack Lenor Larson (1927-2020), LongHouse is the perfect place for these conversations, a place that inspires living with art in all forms, where nature and creativity are seamlessly connected, and historic ideas meld with modern concepts, is the perfect place to gather in conversations about the landscapes that define our lives.

About The Speakers

Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. He is a renowned scholar of architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries and has written extensively on landscape in the work of masters of modern architecture including Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. From 2007 to 2014 he served as chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the advisory committee to the library of the New York Botanical Garden and the Mellon Humanities Institute Fellowship Selection Committee from 2014 to 2022.

Caleb Smith is a professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He began to study the cultural history of landscape design while writing his most recent book, Thoreau's Axe (Princeton University Press 2023) and building his own garden in Connecticut. He has recently published a study of Russell Page in Aeon (October 2023) and lectured about Page for The Garden Conservancy.

William Whitaker is the curator and collections manager of the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. Trained as an architect and architectural historian, he primarily works on documenting and interpreting Penn’s design collections, including holdings related to the life and work of architect Louis I. Kahn and landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, as well as that of the husband and wife design team of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Photo ©Marina Schinzi; Russell Page garden at Villar Perosa

Paul Goldberger in conversation with Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi on Thursday, July 31 at 5:00pm as part of our LongHouse Talks series. Copies of Weiss/Manfredi's most recent monograph, Drifting Symmetries will be available for purchase provided by our friends at BookHampton.

In an era when the dual challenges of climate change and social isolation loom large, Drifting Symmetries emerges as a pivotal exploration of architecture's role in shaping a sustainable and connected future. Weiss/Manfredi's groundbreaking work transcends the boundaries between landscape, infrastructure, and architecture by reinventing sites in response to environmental and social challenges. Presented in this comprehensive volume of projects and parallel research, their work demonstrates a multidisciplinary approach that invents new settings for public life by exploring the gradient between nature and architecture.

Paul Goldberger is an American author, architecture critic and lecturer — widely known as contributing editor at Vanity Fair, columnist for The New Yorker, and architectural critic for the New York Times, where he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism. He was awarded New York City’s Preservation Achievement Award in recognition of the impact of his work on historic preservation. Goldberger served as Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, where he remains the Joseph Urban Professor of Design. The Chair of the board at Philip Johnson’s GlassHouse, he was a great friend and colleague to Jack Lenor Larsen and is the preeminent scholar on LongHouse.

WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York City. Founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, the firm is known for the dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. The firm is well known for the Seattle Art Museum’s celebrated Olympic Sculpture Park, the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center and Overlook, and Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park. Current projects include the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India, the La Brea Tar Pits and museum in Los Angeles, the Tampa Museum of Art expansion, and Lincoln Center’s new outdoor theater in New York City. Most recently, the firm won the international competition for the addition and renovation to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, which attracted submissions from over 180 firms from thirty countries on six continents.

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are recipients of the 2024 Louis I. Kahn Award in Architecture, the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, and the Architectural League of New York’s "Emerging Voices" award. The firm has also been honored with the New York AIA Gold Medal and the Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal, awarded to one individual or firm in the world each year. The firm's projects have been featured in exhibitions at the Venice Architectural Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the São Paulo Biennale of International Architecture and Design, the Shanghai Biennale, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum, the National Building Museum, Harvard University, the Landscape Architecture Biennale in Barcelona, the Design Centre in Essen, Germany, and the Guggenheim Museum. Weiss and Manfredi’s work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, the Seattle Art Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum. Princeton Architectural Press has published three monographs on their work including their most recent book, PUBLIC NATURES. Park Books published their fifth monograph DRIFTING SYMMETRIES in winter 2025.

Visit the twelfth edition of our popular exhibition Planters ON+OFF the Ground on view through Labor Day weekend in the Squash Court at LongHouse. Planters ON+OFF brings together artists, horticulturalists, designers, gardeners, and landscapers who let loose their imaginations and create ingeniously original garden container installations that go beyond the clay pot. This year, the exhibit also features several student collaborations, bringing fresh ideas to an always inventive mix of planters. The only restriction: each creation must be contained to 25 square feet.

A vote for the People's Choice Award took place during the July 20 opening and was announced by our guest host Dr. Georgette Grier-Key, Executive Director and Curator of the Eastville Community Historical Society. 

The winner was Mother Morel by Scott Bluedorn and Zach Bliss.

The runners up were Marybeth LaPenna Lee & Ted Tyler / LaPenna Lee Gardens and ReWild Long Island x Wittendale's Florist & Greenhouses.

Enjoy the delightful displays by these Exhibitors:

Amagansett School x Groundworks  |  Scott Bluedorn & Zach Bliss  |  Elizabeth A. Lear Landscape Associates  |  Jasmine Chamberlain / Floral Feeling  |  Hampton Rustic Landscapes  |  Brianna Hernandez  |  Marybeth LaPenna Lee & Ted Tyler / LaPenna Lee Gardens  |   ReWild Long Island x Wittendale's Florist & Greenhouses  |  Robert Boyle / RB Irrigation  |  The Salt Heir x Fenelon Landscapes  |  Hope Sandrow  |  The SHINE Studio |  Aurelio Torres & Robin Gianis  |   Whisker & Brush x Chini Alarco / Charlie & Sons Landscapes

Drip irrigation for Planters ON+OFF the Ground XII is made possible with the generous support of RB Irrigation.

Support also comes from the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning and County Legislator Ann Welker.

Sunday, September 14 | 11:00am and 2:00pm

Japanese Tea Ceremony & Workshop

Limited to 20 guests per session

Please come and enjoy a tranquil afternoon with a bowl of authentic matcha tea and sweets from Kyoto with the beautiful fall garden of Longhouse as a backdrop.

Chado, the Japanese Tea Ceremony, is a spiritual and aesthetic discipline for refinement of the self. Since the 12^thcentury, matcha has been offered to the Buddhist monks, aristocracy and samurai lords in Japan. The Grand Tea Master, Sen Rikyu, established the foundation for Chado with Zen inspired Wabi-Sabi in the 16^th century.

Ayako Souryo Takamoto, the great granddaughter of the 14^th Grand Tea Master, and Yoko Sanada, a long-time LongHouse friend, will present an authentic Urasenke Chado, followed by the matcha making workshop.