The house in the affluent Boston suburb of Lincoln designed by famed German-American Modernist architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969). He and his family lived there from 1938, after fleeing Nazi Germany. He taught in the Harvard School of Design.
The house was influential in bringing Bauhaus-inspired designs to the U.S. but Mr. Gropius dIsliked the term “International Modernism” that was applied to the house:. "I made it a point to absorb into my own conception those features of the New England architectural tradition that I found still alive and adequate."
He wrote in April 1919, in “The Bauhaus Proclamation”:
“Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.’’
