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Center for the study and promotion of Modern Architecture:
An addition to the Gropius house, Lincoln, Mass. (1938)
The Gropius house in Lincoln, Mass. -- one of the landmarks
of modern architecture in New England built in 1938 -- was
designed by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. In 1980 Ise
Gropius gave the house to the Society of Preservation of New
England Antiquities (SPNEA) to become its first modern twentieth
century acquisition. The house has been operated as a museum
since 1984. In 2001 SPNEA in collaboration with the regional
organization for the Documentation and Preservation of the
Modern Movement (DO.CO.MO.MO.) are investigating the possibility
to raise funds to convert the house to a center for the study
and promotion of modern architecture in honor of Walter Gropius
-- one of the founders of the Modern Movement. They have invited
10 architects to submit their proposals. The intention of
this exercise is to design the building (from idea to design
development to some detailing documentation) following the
client's programmatic requirements.
The client has suggested to convert the house to DO.CO.MO.MO.'s
headquarters. A small library/research center, an auditorium
for 100 people and housing facilities for seven scholars are
the additional programmatic elements that initiate the discussion
for an addition to the Gropius house.
Library/research center: 5,000 sqf
Auditorium 5,000 sqf
DO.CO.MO.MO. offices: 2,000 sqf
Housing for seven scholars: 2,000 sqf
There are several theoretical and representational themes
peripheral to the project which structure the course of the
studio on a weekly or biweekly assignments as the project
will be developed gradually from 1:32 to 1:4 scale. The themes
will be presented in class prior to the assignment in the
form of lectures and slide presentations. These presentations
aim to open venues of discussion in the plurality of approaches
in the making of architecture and to assist the student to
develop his design proposal with a strong visual and theoretical
foundation. The themes are:
- addition/extension, modern architecture & landscape, type
& typology, etc.
- drawings by architects, presentation techniques, construction
of details
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