Harvard Five

The Harvard Five was a group of architects who settled in New Canaan, Connecticut in the 1940s : John M. Johansen , Marcel Breuer , Landis Gores , Philip Johnson, and Eliot Noyes . Marcel Breuer was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design while Gores, Johansen, Johnson, and Noyes studied there.

They were all under the influence of Walter Gropius , director of the architecture course at Harvard.

The small town of New Canaan is known for its numerous buildings of modern architecture . Around 100 modern houses were built there; about 20 of them have already been torn down. However, four have since been added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places : the Johnson Glass House , Landis Gores House , Richard and Geraldine Hodgson House, and Noyes House .

Other well-known architects lived in New Canaan and designed homes for themselves and their clients, including John Black Lee , Hugh Smallen , Victor Christ-Janer , Alan Goldberg , and Carl Koch .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "The Harvard Five in New Canaan", William D. Earls AIA, W. W Norton and Co., 2006. ISBN 978-0-393-73183-5
2. ↑ "Architect for All Seasons," ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by David Gurliacci, Fairfield County Business Journal, January 9, 2006. 
3. ↑ Carl Koch . National Trust for Historic Preservation. Retrieved November 15, 2009.