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The Harvard Five in New Canaan: midcentury modern houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, & others

2007; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 44; Issue: 05 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.44-2523

1943-5975

William D. Earls,

Architecture, Design, and Social History

Since fifties, the Harvard Five has been catchphrase for five architects featured in this book, who all built houses for themselves and for clients in Canaan, Connecticut. Other architects, well known (Frank Lloyd Wright, for example) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today. An introductory essay by Jean Ely, New Canaan Modern (reprinted by permission of Canaan Historical Society), recounts history of area and how Canaan came to be locus of modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form. The book is done as a house tour in chronological order, with photographs and floor plans.