Escape to the Cape with summertime staff favorite 'Cape Cod Modern: Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape' from Metropolis Books.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Text by Peter McMahon, Christine Cipriani. Photographs by Raimund Koch.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Michael K. Hays of @harvardgsd writes: "Rigorously researched and meticulously documented, 'Cape Cod Modern' narrates an extraordinary era of architectural experiments in spatial organizations and materials on the Outer Cape. These houses are not only examples of an alternate legacy of the 'masters' of modern architecture. They are diagrams of a very particular worldview and recommendations for a specific way of living — progressive and enlightened, with art at its center."⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ @michael_k_hayes k_@frampton1958 @raimund.koch #capecodmodern #capecod #modernism #modernarchitecture #bauhaus #midcenturymodern⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CD7J6P2pXp-/?igshid=bl0p3hf647nh

Summertime staff favorite 'Cape Cod Modern: Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape' is back in stock! ⁠⠀ In summer 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and professor at Harvard’s new Graduate School of Design, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. There, he and his wife, Ise, hosted a festive reunion of Bauhaus masters & students who had recently emigrated from Europe: Marcel Breuer, Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Xanti Schawinsky & others. Together they feasted, swam & planned their futures on a new continent, all sensing they were on the cusp of a momentous new phase in their lives. Yet even as they moved on, the group never lost its connection to the Cape Cod coast. Several members returned, when they had the means, to travel farther up the peninsula, rent cabins, buy land & design their ideal summer homes. The flow of talent onto the Outer Cape continued &, within a few years, the area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from NY, Boston, Cambridge & the country’s top schools of architecture & design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in the woods & on the dunes; by the 1970s, there were about 100 modern houses of interest here. In this story, we meet, among others, the Boston Brahmins Jack Phillips & Nathaniel Saltonstall; the self-taught architect, carpenter & painter Jack Hall; the Finn Olav Hammarström, who had worked for Alvar Aalto; & the prolific Charlie Zehnder, who brought the lessons of both Frank Lloyd Wright & Brutalism to the Cape. Initially, these designers had no clients; they built for themselves & their families, or for friends sympathetic to their ideals. Their homes were laboratories, places to work through ideas without spending much money. The result is a body of work unlike any other, a regional modernism fusing the building traditions of Cape Cod fishing towns with Bauhaus concepts & postwar experimentation.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Marcel Breuer's Stillman House / Hayden Walling's Lechay House / György Kepes & Serge Chermayeff / Hayden Walling's Halprin House / Serge Chermayeff’s Wilkinson House / Jack Hall's Hatch House⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #capecodmodern #bauhaus⁠⠀ #capecodmodernhousetrust⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CAiQA1IJnpi/?igshid=1gv9z3mrh1lqx

Next time your on the Cape be sure and stop by the new studio of @keithmaclelland. Breaking ground in March. He’ll be there. #capecodmodern #capecodmodernhousetrust #capecodlife (at Waltham, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_HLUdF0Wj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v8e0j9pk2fm4

Not a bad spot to spend the weekend. * * * #afieldbook #followingboston #capecod #jameslechay #capecodmodern #igersboston #igersnewengland #boston_igers #newengland_igers #igersmass #igersusa #fujifilmxt2 #FujifilmX_US #photooftheday (at Wellfleet, Massachusetts)

Cape Cod Modern! Still the best book on the mid century bauhaus influenced architecture of #capecod #architecturephotography #artbookdap #artbook #capecodmodern

Summer + beach + architecture = Cape Cod Modern by @metropolisbooks #capecodmodern #artbook #artbookdap #architecturephotography

#MarcelBreuer's "Stillman House" in a period photo from #1953. Image via the book #CapeCodModern - #buyit 👌🏼🌊 (at Atwood-Higgins Historic District)