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19:00
CAPE COD MODERNISM AND CADAQUÉS CONNECTIONS
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Conference
. Girona
Organiza
Centre Obert d’Arquitectura
COAC
Sitio
Pl. Catedral, 8
Girona
Hora
19 h
Precio
Free
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The American architect Peter McMahon will explain the relationship between Cape Cod Modernism and the town of Cadaqués in the conference ‘Cape Cod Modernism and Cadaqués Connections’. In the late 1930s, the Outer Cape (Massachusetts) attracted some of the prime movers in modern architecture, including Bauhaus luminaries and self-taught American design builders. This group built flats for themselves in the splendid isolation of the remote peninsula, creating a vibrant creative community. Some of these houses were eventually abandoned and appropriated by the Park Services. Peter McMahon will explore this story and the current efforts of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust to revive and reimagine this legacy.
The conference will be in English.
Peter McMahon
Architect and founding director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, established in 2007 to archive, restore and recognise the exceptional modern architecture of the Outer Cape and the creative culture that surrounded it.
McMahon is co-author, together with Christine Cipriani, of "Cape Cod Modern. Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape” (2014, Metropolis Books), winner of the historic New England Book Prize, 2015.
Some of his recent lectures have been held at: the Architectural Association (London), the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
His professional practice with the PM Design studio focuses on sustainable and modern architecture and the restoration of mid-20 th century buildings. His summer home in Wellfleet has been featured in ‘House Beautiful and Outside Architecture’.