New court studio for home in an iconic modern neighborhood

While creating trails in the 1940s, a group of idealistic architects working with modernist Walter Gropius on the architects of collaborative (TAC) encountered a hilly, a stone underdeveloped piece of land. Once a farm, Lexington, Massachusetts, property had a six car made by Moon Motor Car CO. Inside. The idea for a different type of neighborhood called by those cars, a hill of six mothers, evolved from there.

From 1947 to 1953 yearsArchitects built 28 homes on the hilly side, using Modernist principles of simplicity and accessibility and Inclusion of utopian ideas like roads between and through properties for everyone in the community to enjoy. “Everyone except Gropius designed homes for themselves to live here. They managed to use this development as an experiment,” says architect Colon Flavin.

This house was designed by Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, the basic partner of TAC and was built in 1949. years. Current homeowners, a couple with three daughters, wanted to create a studio for artistic expression, gathering and enjoying the view of the surrounding forest and garden. They also wanted Carport. Flavin designed two structures to resonate the architecture of the main house and fit on a sloping, rocky place.