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Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Eliot Noyes, Edward Durell Stone, and others created an extraordinary collection of modern houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, in the 1940s and 1950s.The bucolic New England town—a suburb of Manhattan—became the site of fervent experimentation by some of the leading lights of the movement in the United States, the architects known as the Harvard Five, whose modern aesthetic could be traced to the Bauhaus school of design. There they promoted their core principles: simplicity, openness, and sensitivity to site and nature, and built glass, wood, steel, and fieldstone houses that established architectural modernism as the ideal of domesticity in the twentieth century. Architects Jeffrey Matz and Cristina A.
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Lorenzo Ottaviani is the creative director of Lorenzo Ottaviani Design - a graphic design studio in New York. His work has been recognized with multiple national and international awards.
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Lorenzo is the author of Travel Italia: The Golden Age of Italian Travel Posters, and the co-author of Midcentury Houses Today.
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