Main entry:

Earls, William D.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.

Description:

173 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
New Canaan Modern: The Beginning 1947-1952 11 -- House Tour 23 -- 1947 -- Noyes 1 -- Eliot Noyes 24 -- 1948 -- Gores -- Landis Gores 28 -- 1949 -- Breuer 1 -- Marcel Breuer 36 -- 1949 -- Johnson -- Philip Johnson 42 -- 1949 -- Kniffen -- Breuer-Noyes 58 -- 1949 -- Johansen -- John Johansen 60 -- 1949 -- Mills -- Marcel Breuer 64 -- 1950 -- Dunham -- John Johansen 66 -- 1950 -- Barlow -- John Johansen 68 -- 1951 -- Hodgson -- Philip Johnson 70 -- 1951 -- Stackpole -- Eliot Noyes 72 -- 1951 -- Bremer -- Eliot Noyes 74 -- 1951 -- Breuer 2 -- Marcel Breuer 78 -- 1952 -- Lee 1 -- John Black Lee 80 -- 1952 -- Riley -- Chauncey Riley 88 -- 1952 -- Irwin -- Victor Christ-Janer 94 -- 1952 -- Campbell -- John Johansen 96 -- 1953 -- Ball -- Philip Johnson 102 -- 1953 -- Goode -- John Johansen 104 -- 1953 -- Wiley -- Philip Johnson 106 -- 1953 -- Dickenson -- John Johansen 110 -- 1954 -- Noyes 2 -- Eliot Noyes 112 -- 1956 -- Rayford -- Frank Lloyd Wright 116 -- 1956 -- Lee 2 -- John Black Lee 122 -- 1956 -- Warner -- John Johansen 128 -- 1956 -- Boissonas -- Philip Johnson 132 -- 1957 -- Smallen -- Hugh Smallen 136 -- 1957 -- Mills -- Sherwood, Mills & Smith 138 -- 1959 -- Celanese -- Edward Durrell Stone 142 -- 1960 -- Irwin pool house -- Landis Gores 144 -- 1961 -- Teaze -- John Black Lee 146 -- 1961 -- McCarthy -- Allan Gelbin 148 -- 1961 -- DeSilver -- John Black Lee 150 -- 1965 -- Parsons -- Hugh Smallen 154 -- 1966 -- Day -- John Black Lee 156 -- 1966 -- Luthold -- Allen Gelbin 160 -- The Poems 164.

Summary:

Since the fifties, "the Harvard Five" has been the catchphrase for the five architects featured in this book, who all built houses for themselves and for clients in New 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 the New Canaan Historical Society), recounts the history of the area and how New Canaan came to be the locus of the 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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0393731839 (hardcover)
9780393731835 (hardcover)

Subject:

Midcentury modern (Architecture) Connecticut New Canaan.
Architecture Connecticut New Canaan History 20th century.
Architecture domestique Connecticut New Canaan Histoire 20e siècle.
Modernisme du milieu du siècle (Architecture) Connecticut New Canaan.
Architecture Connecticut New Canaan Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Midcentury modern (Architecture)
New Canaan (Conn.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New Canaan (Conn.) Constructions.
Connecticut New Canaan.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246631
Call No.: BIB 176216
Status: Available