IOWA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION

IAFs ARCHITECTURE IN COMMUNITY program provides lectures and tours to educate the public about notable Iowa architecture. Architecture Month events included a Mid Century Modern Home Tour in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in conjunction with Mid Mod Iowa as well as a lecture on Mid Century Garden Design at the GDM Botanical Garden. We held our popular Des Moines Eat Drink Architecture pub crawl/architectural walking tour for the eighth year, and our series of summer walking tours, Architecture on the Move, adding an extra tour in October of the Western Gateway. The tours educate the public about Des Moines architectural legacy--including little-known stories about the architects and significance of the buildings that shape the downtown skyline. IAF provided custom tours to many influential groups, including World Food Prize, Grinnell College, Questers, YPC, Winefest DSM, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation and more. The foundation promoted its walking tour app for self guided tours with brochures at the Des Moines Airport and CVB. A new class, Chicagos World Class Architecture, was added, and City Beautiful and What Style is Your House were offered. IAF held a benefit event to celebrate the preservation and restoration of 601 Grand, designed by internationally famous architect Mies van der Rohe. An event of this magnitude was a new venture for IAF, and there were many new faces and guests from the public. It was entirely on point with IAFs educational mission To inspire an appreciation of architecture and design through education and outreach. The educational message, told through a museum-quality display of timeline boards, documented both Miess story and the history of the buildings launch and preservation. The exhibition boards from the Mies event were then in an exhibit at the Iowa Center for Architecture during the month of August. A reception was held to maximize the number of people who could increase their architecture IQ by seeing them.