Review: Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape, by Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani

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Book Review| June 01 2015 Review: Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape, by Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani Peter McMahon and Christine CiprianiCape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer CapeNew York: Metropolis Books, 2014, 272 pp., 131 color and 186 b/w illus. $45.00, ISBN 9781935202165 Jayne Merkel Jayne Merkel 1New York City Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2015) 74 (2): 260–261. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.2.260 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jayne Merkel; Review: Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape, by Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2015; 74 (2): 260–261. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.2.260 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search This colorful history, focusing on the towns of Wellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts, near the tip of Cape Cod, expands our knowledge of some important figures in American modernism, introduces two architects of consequence, and shows the influence of American vernacular architecture on some sophisticated European modernists. This part of the Cape, a windswept spit of land with shifting sands on the open ocean, protected beaches along the bay, and poor soil for farming, was inhabited mainly by fishermen for most of its history. Until the 1950s, it was accessible only by unpaved roads and a backwoods railroad. Although a summer colony of artists and writers developed in nearby Provincetown at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was only in the late 1930s, after some American craftsmen-builders moved to the area and European modern architects arrived, that the work this book describes took form. When Walter Gropius and his wife... You do not currently have access to this content.