The Vernacular Moment: Eleanor Raymond, Walter Gropius, and New England Modernism between the Wars

摘要

The introduction of European modernist architec-ture to the United States in the late 1920s and 1930s was championed by prominent institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art and Harvard Univer-sity's Graduate School of Design, as well as by internation-ally recognized immigrant practitioners, led by Walter Gropius (1883-1969). The modern movement was widely perceived to be essentially foreign, but some of its promot-ers cannily made it seem, to some degree, familiar and ac-ceptable by likening it to American traditions, most notably, to the great diversity of American vernacular architecture-from factories and grain elevators to cottages and barns.~1