Noyes House II: Analysis of a Provocative Design

5th International Iconic Houses Conference – 15-18 May 2018 in New Canaan, CT, USA.

MODERNISM ON THE EAST COAST – PHILIP JOHNSON AND THE HARVARD FIVE

In the 1940s, a group of five modern architects from Harvard inspired by the Bauhaus ideas about architecture settled in the bucolic town of New Canaan, CT, where they stirred up an experimental modernist movement in the sleepy New England town. Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Landis Gores, John Johansen and Philip Johnson, established what would become a center of experimental Modern residential design. Their informal network became later known as the “Harvard Five”. Speakers will offer an insight about the role of architect Philip Johnson and the Harvard Five in the 20th century.

Speaker: Architect Frederick Noyes, Eliot Noyes’ son, grew up in the Noyes House (1954) in New Canaan. He will analyze his childhood home and the design context alongside his father’s legacy. Designed by Eliot Noyes and included on the National Register of Historic Places, the house’s unique composition — two enclosures for public and private functions connected by an open air courtyard — remains highly provocative.

Meet Frederick Noyes in this interview:
www.iconichouses.org/news/ihc18-frederick-noyes-on-his-fathers-house

The Iconic Houses Conference was organized by the Iconic Houses network. Conference Chair was Iconic Houses’ Founding Director Natascha Drabbe and Conference Co-Chair Hilary Lewis, Chief Curator and Creative Director at the Glass House.

The full program can be found in this link:
www.iconichouses.org/doc/conference/IHConference-DailySchedule-08052018.pdf

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We thank our lead sponsor American Express and other generous sponsors for their support. The conference is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York • Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands • WJE - Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. • KSM Architecture • Mexican Cultural Institute of New York • The Pasadena Tour Company.