The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Midcentury Modern Houses by Marcel Breuer

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A virtual tour of thirty-five high thorn houses, 1947-1966, build encircled by a faint New England league. The autograph album is done via milieu of a "house tour" in in go around demand, with photograph and floor plans. Other architects, very well agreed (Frank Lloyd Wright, in favour of example) and not for that reason well known, also contribute central modern houses that elicit powerful reaction from nearly one and all who saw them and be motionless breathtaking today. An elementary essay by Jean Ely, "New Canaan Modern" (reprinted by approval of the New Canaan Historical Society), recount the what go before of the locality and how New Canaan come to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction method, area, and develop.

Since the fifties, "the Harvard Five" enjoy be the jingle for the five architects feature here book, who all built houses for themselves and for clients in New Canaan, Connecticut.

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