Modern Architecture Tour in New Canaan

Architect James Evans discussing the Evans House with future architects from Roger Williams University

Last week I hosted 3 architects from Aamodt Plumb along with 15 students from Roger Williams University as we took a tour of 4 of New Canaan's best midcentury Modern houses. We saw the Philip Johnson Boissonas House of 1958 and learned what makes it unique among Johnson's commissions in town. Philip Johnson's confidant and protege Marty Skreleunas 

built a fire and made us feel right at home in the Noyes House. Architect James Evans gave his personal tour of the Evans House with it's exceptional parabolic roof. Jenny Xie, a reporter from Curbed Magazine attended the tour and honored the Evans House by making it Curbed's House of the Day.

Finally, we ended our tour at the famous Willis Mills House. The architects took note of many of the fine craftsmanlike custom details such as how the steps form acute angles rather than the standard risers of 90 degrees.

1958 Porsche at the Greenwich Car Show and Concours d'Elegance this Weekend, and some of my favorite pictures of that car...

Mead Park

Boissonas House of 1958

Philip Johnson

blending in with the bricks

even the engine is pretty, everything in its place

Mead Park Photo Shoot for the Catalog

Saying Goodbye to the Car in Greenwich

227 Lambert Road

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at the James Evans house, 1960

a hyperbolic paraboloid roof in the background

Philip Johnson's Wiley Speculative House

Bonham's Auction in Greenwich

 

Porsche 1958 and 1965