Cape Cod modern : midcentury architecture and community on the Outer Cape / Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton ; new photographs by Raimund Koch ; new drawings by Thomas Dalmas.

Main entry:

McMahon, Peter, 1957- author.

Title & Author:

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Metropolis Books, [2014]
©2014

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architecture on the edge : four hundred years of building for the moment -- The Brahmin bohemians : "A very nice shack" -- Community and privacy : the Europeans -- Late Modernism on Cape Cod.

Summary:

In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now. The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in the woods and on the dunes; by the 1970s, there were about 100 modern houses of interest here.

ISBN:

9781935202165 (hardback)
1935202162 (hardback)

Subject:

Cape Cod houses Massachusetts Cape Cod.
Modern movement (Architecture) Massachusetts Cape Cod.
Architecture and society Massachusetts Cape Cod History 20th century.
Maisons de style Cape Cod Massachusetts Cod, Cap.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Massachusetts Cod, Cap.
Architecture et société Massachusetts Cod, Cap Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and society History Massachusetts 20th century.
Cape Cod houses Massachusetts.
Modern movement (Architecture) Massachusetts.
Architecture and society
Cape Cod houses
Intellectual life
Modern movement (Architecture)
Haus
Architektur
Cape Cod (Mass.) Intellectual life 20th century.
Cod, Cap (Mass.) Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
Massachusetts Cape Cod
Cape Cod Bay

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Cipriani, Christine, author.
Frampton, Kenneth, writer of foreword.
Koch, Raimund, photographer.
Dalmas, Thomas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286849
Call No.: BIB 227377
Status: Available

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