New Canaan Library and The Glass House welcome Esto director Erica Stoller and architectural historian and critic Nina Rappaport, presenting a lecture on Ezra Stoller, the preeminent American architectural photographer whose images helped define mid-century modernism. Ms. Stoller and Ms. Rappaport appear as part of Glass House Presents at New Canaan Library, an occasional series of talks and events about architecture, design, and Modernism in New Canaan and beyond, organized by The Glass House and New Canaan Library. The event will be held on Monday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m., preceded by a light reception at 6 p.m. Please register to attend at newcanaanlibrary.org.
Ezra Stoller’s photographs document iconic buildings — including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, the Seagram Building, and the TWA Terminal, among others — as well as homes of middle-class Americans that appeared in magazines such as Architectural Record and Ladies’ Home Journal.

Nina Rappaport is an architectural critic, curator, historian, and educator. For over sixteen years she has been publications director at Yale School of Architecture, for which she edits the bi-annual magazine Constructs, exhibition catalogs, and the books series.

She directs Vertical Urban Factory http://www.verticalurbanfactory.org/, a think tank on the topic of industry in the city, which includes a traveling exhibition (New York, Detroit, Toronto, London, and Lausanne) and has recently published a book of the same title with Actar. Her previous books include Ezra Stoller: Photographer with co-editor Erica Stoller (Yale University Press, 2012) and Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation (The Monacelli Press, 2007). Rappaport has written numerous essays on structural design, architecture, and global industrial landscapes and has taught seminars and studios on urban theory and industrial urbanism at Kean University, Syracuse in NYC architecture program, Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, and Yale. She is a founder and current Vice President of Docomomo-New York/Tri-State. For more information, visit ninarappaport.com.

Erica Stoller is the director of Esto, a photo agency that represents architectural photographers and handles an archive of images related to architecture, interiors, landscape, and more. The collection is based on the work of her father Ezra Stoller (1915 – 2004), who is well known for his images of mid-Century Modernism. The Esto archive is a source of information for scholars, photo researchers, and publishers. With her extensive experience with images of architecture, Erica understands the photographer’s point of view, the requirements of the client and the way images both depict and alter what is called “reality.” Beyond this realm, she is an artist, making wall sculpture of repurposed, industrial materials and is represented by A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn. For more information, visit esto.com.