Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape

Product Description For too long, kindergarten architects have been seemingly preoccupied with the principles of durability, is at I on of space, and minimisation of cost. This, however, also meant forgetting that these environments should promote fun, learning and creativity. However, the field has been experiencing a revolution and this volume showcases 60 of the most outstanding recent innovations worldwide. The chosen projects prove especially that collaboration between education a lists and designers can be uniquely fruitful for the planning and building of kindergarten. From the contents: kindergarten in sighartstein, Austria (kadawittfeldarchitektur) els colors kindergarten in Barcelona, Spain (rcr architectes) Taka tuka land in Berlin, Germany (baupiloten) bubbletecture M in shiga, Japan (shuhei endo) kindergarten in ramat-hasharon, Israel (lev-gargir architect). Review Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Comunity on the Outher Cape, by Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani (Metropolis Books, $33), reveals one of the East Coasts best-kept architectural secrets; an enclave of disarmingly unpretencious houses, many inspired by chicken coops and oyster houses. Often made with scavenged wood mixed with raw lumber straight from the yard, the buildings were designed by Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Serge Chermayeff, Maurice Smith and serious amateurs. In this rich cultural setting, left-leaning figures including Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson..., bathed nude in brisk waters on principle and exercised elastic morals among the unpainted two-by-fours.--Joseph Giovannini The New York Times Fascinating-an elegantly written, well researched, highly readable account of the creation and flowering of a world of social and intellectual exchange, its characters, influences, and traditions, and the refined, austere, and delightful houses that are its legacy.--George McNeely World Monuments Fund Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape (Metropolis), coauthored by McMahon and Christine Cipriani, is a name-dropping beauty that covers not only the designers of the odd-shaped, rustic summer camps in the air, as the co-authors call them, but their parties and intellectual ferment. There are Boston Brahmins such as Nathaniel Saltonstall and friends of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, including Marcel Breuer. These designers loved their porches and Breuers -- suspended over a steep drop with views of three ponds -- was more spectacular than most.--Jane Gardner The Boston Globe ...evokes the most visceral, astonished response, even from veteran architects.--Peter McMahon Take Magazine Vacationers who frequent the Outer Cape may not recognize the (intentionally) hidden or, in several cases, derelict remains of a remarkable, little-known chapter in American architecture, revealed in CAPE COD MODERN: MIDCENTURY ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNITY ON THE OUTER CAPE, by Peter MacMahon adn Christine Cipriani. One hopes the glamour shot of Hayden Wallings Halprin House given full-bleed reproduction on the cover-de rigeuer decor for the familiar sort of promotional architecture books that feature Architectural Digest-style homes-will entice the unwary to buy this thoughtful examination of vacation homes built by modernist masters (both well-and undeservedly lesser-known) in Wellfleet and Truro between the late 30s and 1977. Most fancinating are the pocket bios of the black sheep Boston Brahmins and other talented amateurs, like Walling, who pioneered modern architecture on the Cape, and the Bauhaus refugees and other European emigres, including Serge Chermayeff and Marcel Breuer. who made the woods of Wellfleet a laboratory for modernism from the 40s through the 60s. A final chapter traces the efforts, more complex but less impressive, of the following generation.--Christopher Lyon Bookforum A perfectly considered piece of architectural publishing, Cape Cod Modern tells the st