A+U 584 Mid-Century Modern Houses In New Canaan

Description

Popularly known as the location of the Glass House by Philip Johnson, New Canaan, Connecticut, is home to a number of other striking modernist residences designed by Harvard graduates of his generation. After nearly 40 years, the homes conceived by Marcel Breuer, Alan Goldberg, Eliot Noyes, Landis Gores, John Johansen, John Black Lee, Hugh Smallen, Edward Durell Stone, and Frank Lloyd Wright still continue to fascinate. Guest edited by Alan Goldberg and with new photographs by Michael Biondo, this issue examines the thought processes behind the designs of the houses of that seminal era through a large collection of valuable original drawings and documents.

CONTENTS

Foreword
I Was There. Alan Goldberg, Guest Editor

Introduction
New Canaan in The Context of American Modernism, Michael Webb

Essay
Other Modern Houses—Demolished, Reconfigured, Obscured, Unavailable, Alan Goldberg

Historical Records

Works

• Glass House Compound, Philip Johnson
• Breuer House I, Marcel Breuer
• Breuer House II, Marcel Breuer
• Wiley House, Philip Johnson
• Lee House I, John Black Lee
• Noyes House II, Eliot Noyes
• Rayward “Tirranna” House, Frank Lloyd Wright
• Warner “Bridge” House, John Johansen
• Celanese House, Edward Durell Stone
• Boissonnas House, Philip Johnson
• Tatum House, Hugh Smallen
• Parsons House, Hugh Smallen
• Goldberg House, Alan Goldberg
• Chivvis House, Eliot Noyes, Alan Goldberg

Column
Selected Details, Alan Goldberg

Architect Biographies