THE SITES

Marcel Breuer - Breuer House No. 1

Mentor of the Harvard Five, architect Marcel Breuer built this house for his family in 1948.  Its clean boxlike form defined the new Modernist aesthetic and construction techniques, especially the use of steel cables to hold a cantilevered deck.  Landscape and architecture, here, collaborate with a collection of Sargent hemlocks, a spacious lawnscape and geometric terraces

   Charles Perry "Double Knot"

   Diana Moore "White Head"

   Judith Steinberg "Signal Hill"

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Eliot Noyes - Weeks House

This 1952 vintage Noyes (Harvard Five) is classic Bauhaus: spare, elegant, rectolinear architecture sited on a vast space of lawn sweeping into the woodlands beyond.  Magnificant knarled red beech and magnolias surround the house.  In 1987, Noyes's partner, Alan Goldberg, designed a major expansion introducing curvilinear forms to contrast and collaborate with the original linear architecture.

   Dan Bergfeld "Oak Breeze"

   Drew Klotz

   Jim Felice "Ginger's Dream"

   Robert Meyer "Red 2 Forms No. 3"

   Marcia Spivak 'Grazing Horse"

   Diana Moore "Head with Turtleneck"

 John Black Lee - De Silver / "Systems House"

One of Lee's origianl system Houses, built in 1953 and sited on a hill, demonstrated a new method of construction with prefabricated elements in dimensions that accommodate most furniture and building materials.  Columns surround the house, supporting a second floor balcony and wide overhanging roof.  Glass walls separate the interior from dramatic woodlands.

   James Jackson Burt "Icosphere"

John Black Lee - Lee House No. 1

On a level with the tree tops, high on a rock ledge sloping down over uneven glacial rock formations into dense woodlands, this house was built by Lee for his family in 1953.  Determined by a precipitous and dramatic site, the structure, except for a central core, is attached to the ground with steel pins.  Colonies of various mosses carpet the ledge, punctuated with evergreens and laurels surrounding the house.

    Carole Eisner "Lucy"

   Renata Manasse-Schwebel "Welding #5"

   David Boyajian "Unfurling VIII"

   Diana Moore "Head/Room"

Diana Moore, David Boyajian, Renata Manass-Schwebel

Richard Bergmann - Latham-Scannell House

High over the Noroton River on hilly woodlands, this stunning contemporary, built in 1968 with steeply pitched roofs and four decks, has recently been remodelled by Bergmann for its new owners.  The architect apprenticed with Eliot Noyes and is known for his respect for purity of form and honesty of expression as the "Keeper of the Flame" for Modern Architecture in New Canaan.

     David Gerlach "Avitar"

   Louis Slovinsky "Omphalos"

   Rain Kiernan "Torso Relief III"

   Sharon Wandel "Sightings"

   Charles Perry "Broken Knot"

 PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF SILVERMINE GUILD ARTIST, TORRANCE YORK