“Noam Chomsky made the comparison that zombies are a reflection of fear and desperation, and that we in the United States try to make something that we’re oppressing into something […]
Cape Cod Modern House Trust
NATIVE ART
Hawk and Sierra Henries Create Beauty out of Wood
Father and daughter are Weidlinger house residents this week
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 […]
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, […]
