For Tour Day 2024, Docomomo US/New England will visit the Six Moon Hill community in Lexington, MA, developed and built between 1947 and 1953 by and for members of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in Cambridge, a firm founded, and at that time still headed, by Walter Gropius, former Director of the Bauhaus in Germany and since 1937 Director of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.

The community, based on egalitarian and utopian principles, encompasses 28 moderately prized houses (ca. $ 20000), which all share a mid-century modern design philosophy and formal language, such as flat or butterfly roofs, large floor to ceiling windows, narrow vertical siding and open plan layouts. Among the architects were Jean Bodman and Norman Fletcher, Sarah and John Harkness, Robert McMillen and Louis McMillan and Benjamin Thompson.

We expect to visit 3-4 houses under the guidance of architect Tim Techler, who has restored several of the houses and Susan Ward a design historian, curator and consultant.

Free, registration coming soon.