The Arthur Erickson House and Garden in Vancouver, owned and managed by the Arthur Erickson Foundation, has just been listed as a member of ICONIC HOUSES, the international network based in the Netherlands connecting architecturally significant houses and artists’ homes and studios from the twentieth century. The network includes almost 200 iconic houses located around the world, all of them open to the public, with projects by such design luminaries as Schindler, Neutra, Eames, Mies, Wright, Johnson, Rudolph, Le Corbusier, Loos, Aalto … and now Erickson.

Twentieth century architect's houses and modern house museums form a unique category of sites, but the professional issues that concern running the sites are more or less the same. The aim of the Iconic Houses Network is to provide a platform for professional discussion: to share not only the best practices but also encourage each member to develop new activities. With its membership now in place, the Arthur Erickson Foundation is set to benefit from the network's research initiatives and expertise with restoration issues, audience development, caring of collections and display strategies, and exhibitions programming.

A complete illustrated listing of the network's member house museums is available at iconichouses.org. Tours of the Erickson Garden continue to be offered in season: visit aefoundation/tours for details.