Producer/Director Joanna Datillo lecturing
on Windshield at Boston Architectual Center
Photos: Scott Mullen

:: About Us
We are presently developing a series of documentaries which will examine exceptional human and architectural stories of collaboration and creativity hidden in the history of modern architecture. Windshield: A Vanished Vision, the first in this series, tells the tale of the daring creation and tragic demise of Windshield, a grand, but little-known, modernist home on Fishers Island, New York. Designed by the Austrian-born architect, Richard Neutra, in 1938 for the distinguished John Nicholas Brown Family of Rhode Island, it's story is all that remains today.

“Windshield is an important part of what one could call the ‘hidden history’ of modern architecture in the United States, in fact a major representative of a movement that has previously been widely overlooked by historians.”—Dietrich Neumann, Professor of Architecture, Brown University

:: Mission
The value of visual materials as a tool for developing public awareness and accessibility to the arts and their importance in the creation of a more objective and environmentally sound society cannot, in this visual age, be understated. Accessibility can be hindered by a failure to understand the historic and cultural forces that shape our environment. Artvision Communications Inc. was incorporated in 2003 as a non-profit 501(c)3 organization to produce documentaries which educate and inspire the public about our cultural heritage and the importance of space and place in the development of style.