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Mary Otis Stevens

Daily Dose /ˈɪmɪdʒ(ə)ri/ monographic images 1383 | Mary Otis Stevens - the Lincoln House "It was demolished in 1999, during the period when modernist buildings from Cape Cod to California were being torn down due to a pervasive and hostile cultural rejection of modernism and everything it stood for. In the US, the political anger now being expressed with the Tea Party first came out on the home front. What Thomas McNulty and I were doing was not a public building but a house, with no doors and no hierarchy. Although it was our own home, it was an experiment and that was threatening. We chose the Lincoln site because that was the town where Walter Gropius had done his experiment. It seemed ok at the time to build our idea of a house, almost three decades after Gropius had done his. Columbus, a Midwestern town in Indiana, had established a tradition beginning with Eero Saarinen of inviting contemporary architects and artists to try out ideas there, and that was fine with the residents. But in Lincoln, an affluent post-World War II suburb of Boston, it was not fine at all." M. O. Stevens in interview with Ute Meta Bauer, Domus 967 / March 2013. Thanks to Leonie Hagen.