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COPY LINK HERE : https://share.bookcenterapp.com/yumpue/1935202162 From the 8220summer Bauhaus 8221 on, the Cape 8217 s modern designers enjoyed a lifestyle based on communion with nature, solitary creativity and shared festivityIn the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard 8217s 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 and stud

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From the 8220summer Bauhaus 8221 on, the Cape 8217 s modern designers enjoyed a lifestyle based on communion with nature, solitary creativity and shared festivityIn the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard 8217s 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 and stud

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Descripti<strong>on</strong> :<br />

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designers enjoyed a lifestyle based <strong>on</strong> communi<strong>on</strong> with nature,<br />

solitary creativity <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> shared festivityIn <strong>the</strong> summer of 1937, Walter<br />

Gropius, founder of <strong>the</strong> Bauhaus <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> a professor at Harvard 8217s<br />

new Graduate School of Design, rented a house <strong>on</strong> Planting Isl<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>,


near <strong>the</strong> base of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cape</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cod</str<strong>on</strong>g>. There, he <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> his wife, Ise, hosted a<br />

festive reuni<strong>on</strong> of Bauhaus masters <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> students who had recently<br />

emigrated from Europe: Marcel Breuer, Herbert Bayer, L 225szl 243<br />

Moholy-Nagy, Xanti Schawinsky <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> o<strong>the</strong>rs. Toge<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>y feasted,<br />

swam <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> planned <strong>the</strong>ir futures <strong>on</strong> a new c<strong>on</strong>tinent, all sensing <strong>the</strong>y<br />

were <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> cusp of a momentous new phase in <strong>the</strong>ir lives. Yet even<br />

as <strong>the</strong>y moved <strong>on</strong>, <strong>the</strong> group never lost its c<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong> to <strong>the</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cape</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Cod</str<strong>on</strong>g> coast. Several members returned, when <strong>the</strong>y had <strong>the</strong> means, to<br />

travel far<strong>the</strong>r up <strong>the</strong> peninsula, rent cabins, buy l<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> design<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir ideal summer homes. Thus began a chapter in <strong>the</strong> history of<br />

modern architecture that has never been told--until now. The flow of<br />

talent <strong>on</strong>to <strong>the</strong> <strong>Outer</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cape</str<strong>on</strong>g> c<strong>on</strong>tinued <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>, within a few years, <strong>the</strong><br />

area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Bost<strong>on</strong>,<br />

Cambridge <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong> country 8217s top schools of architecture <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in <strong>the</strong> woods <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> dunes by <strong>the</strong> 1970s, <strong>the</strong>re were about 100 modern houses of<br />

interest here. In this story, we meet, am<strong>on</strong>g o<strong>the</strong>rs, <strong>the</strong> Bost<strong>on</strong><br />

Brahmins Jack Phillips <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Nathaniel Salt<strong>on</strong>stall <strong>the</strong> self-taught<br />

architect, carpenter <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> painter Jack Hall <strong>the</strong> Finn Olav Hammarstr<br />

246m, who had worked for Alvar Aalto <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong> prolific Charlie<br />

Zehnder, who brought <strong>the</strong> less<strong>on</strong>s of both Frank Lloyd Wright <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

Brutalism to <strong>the</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cape</str<strong>on</strong>g>. Initially, <strong>the</strong>se designers had no clients <strong>the</strong>y<br />

built for <strong>the</strong>mselves <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>the</strong>ir families, or for friends sympa<strong>the</strong>tic to<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir ideals. Their homes were laboratories, places to work through<br />

ideas without spending much m<strong>on</strong>ey. The result of this ferment is a<br />

body of work unlike any o<strong>the</strong>r, a regi<strong>on</strong>al modernism fusing <strong>the</strong><br />

building traditi<strong>on</strong>s of <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cape</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Cod</str<strong>on</strong>g> fishing towns with Bauhaus c<strong>on</strong>cepts<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> postwar experimentati<strong>on</strong>.

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