RESTON, GOODMAN, HICKORY BOOK TALK @ WED SEP 18

CityLab Senior Editor Amanda Kolson Hurly will discuss her new book Radical Suburbs:  Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City at a September 18, 2019 RCC Lake Anne Rose Gallery event sponsored by the Reston Historic Trust and Museum.  Ms. Hurly, who specializes in architecture and urban planning, also recently discussed another major planned community and book chapter in a similar program at the Greenbelt Museum on July 18, 2019.

In Radical Suburbs, Ms. Hurly writes about Reston in Chapter 6:  The Fight Over the Soul of a New Town, from origins through recent developments, and mentions both Architect Charles M. Goodman and Hickory Cluster: " ... Two prominent architects from Washington filled in the edges of Lake Anne Village with more small-scale Modernist housing.  Charles Goodman, the designer of nearby Hollin Hills, produced Hickory Cluster, ninety townhouses tucked gently into a wooded hillside overlooking the lake.  The houses vary in size and height, but they all bear the same grid in front, a concrete frame that is sometimes enclosed with large panes of glass, sometimes left open as a patio. ... "  Ms. Hurley also quotes Goodman in her Conclusion chapter. 

In another similar book published in 2013, Covert Capital:  Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia, author and Haverford College Assistant Professor of History Andrew Friedman writes about Reston, Goodman, and Hickory Cluster as notable elements of the Dulles Corridor between CIA Headquarters and Dulles International Airport where foreign service lives, places, and architecture merged as professional and personal community expressions of modern, post-World War II, post-colonial, U.S. foreign policy promoted by the CIA.  The book also mentions former HCA Block 3 Member homeowner and CIA Officer Karl Ingebritsen who passed away August 16, 2019.

Both books confirm the noteworthy roles Reston, Goodman, Hickory Cluster, and local residents have played and continue to play in international, national, and regional policy, culture, and history.