Hawk Henries has been making hand-carved wooden flutes since as long as his daughter Sierra, 34, can remember. “He’s one of a very small handful of people doing the work […]
Cape Cod Modern House Trust
An Architectural Conversation on ‘Masterful Moderns’
Join the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod for a free conversation with Peter McMahon, founding director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, and Mark Hutker, principal and founder of […]
ARTIST RESIDENCY
Wellfleet’s Modern Houses Are Still Laboratories for Collaboration
Four artists from Brooklyn make the most of 10 days in October
A storm rolls toward the Outer Cape, stirring the ocean’s waves and sending shivers through the pine forest. Unperturbed, a lone figure dances on the deck of the Kugel/Gips House, […]
GALLERY
House to House on Bound Brook Island
Exploring the past on a walk in the woods
Following the roads and paths of Wellfleet’s Bound Brook Island, you’ll find hillsides covered with bearberry and stands of winterberry along the now-still tidal brook below. There are houses, too […]
ARCHITECTURE
Nauset Students Recognized by Cape Cod Modern House Trust
Winning design projects show college-level sophistication
“It is unusual for a high school to have an architecture program,” says Peter McMahon, the founding director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) and co-author of Cape […]
GALLERY
Thinking Inside the Box
Peter McMahon’s designs turn simple materials into useful geometry
A few principles guided the planning for the Independent’s new office on the first floor of Provincetown’s Whaler’s Wharf: simplicity, versatility, and cost. The challenge was to create quiet work […]
BOOK REVIEW
Paul Weidlinger: A Brilliant Engineer Split in Two by Exile
The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and the American Dream by Tom Weidlinger
Perched on stilts, the Weidlinger house on Wellfleet’s Higgins Pond peers out from the surrounding green like a wide pinhole camera. This camera-like impression echoes the Marcel Breuer house nearby, […]
