Spotlighting the Aluminaire House鈥檚 Next Chapter
Aluminaire House, one of the earliest examples of modernist architecture in America that for a time lived on the Central Islip campus thanks to the leadership of School of Architecture and Design聽Associate Professor Frances Campani聽and Professor Emeritus聽Michael Schwarting, was featured in a lengthy profile in聽The New York Times: 鈥.鈥 The structure is soon to be displayed permanently in the Palm Springs Art Museum. Built in 1931, the house was set to be demolished in 1986 聽鈥渦ntil the architect Michael Schwarting raised the money to dismantle and move the house to Central Islip, N.Y., where聽it became an educational project鈥澛燼t New York Institute of Technology,鈥 the article reads, continuing, 鈥淪chwarting and the architect Frances Campani worked with students on it until 2004鈥 Eventually, to protect it from vandalism, they dismantled the house again and stored the pieces in a 40-foot-long tractor-trailer. 鈥業t took five days,鈥 Schwarting recalled. 鈥淚t comes apart like a big erector set.鈥