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All Posts in Category: Carl Koch

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Bauhaus, Belmont, boston, Carl Koch, compton, Conantum, Concord, Deck House, Dick Morehouse, Five Fields, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gropius House, Henry Hoover, Historic New England, House Tour, Ira Rakatansky, Lexington, lincoln, Mid-Century Modern, MIT, New York Times, Peacock Farm, Preservation, Six Moon Hill, Snake Hill, TAC, Techbuilt, Turning Mill, Video, Walter Gropius, Walter Pierce On Feb 24, 2020

With the help of Alex Loer, we have a new video overview of the history of midcentury-modern architecture and neighborhoods in Boston’s western suburbs.  

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Heroic Brutalism and the Lincoln House and Studio

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Ben Thompson, brutalist, Cambridge Seven Associates, Carl Koch, Design Research, Earl Flansburgh, Ezra Stoller, Five Fields, Hugh Stubbins, Jane Thompson, Josep Lluís Sert, Josep Lluis Sert, Kallman and McKinnell, Le Corbusier, Lexington, lincoln, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudolph, Roche-Dinkeloo, Saarinen, Six Moon Hill, Snake Hill, TAC, Techbuilt, Walter Gropius On Dec 27, 2018

In 2015 I attended a talk given by a couple of the authors of Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, which had just been published. The insight of the authors was so keen and their presentation so impressive that I naturally purchased a copy at the event. It is truly a hefty tome, more…

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Informal Video Tour of 100 Pleasant

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, homes for sale, Lexington, Listings, Techbuilt, Video On May 19, 2018
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Turning Mill Renovation

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Dwell, Lexington, Listings, Techbuilt, Turning Mill On May 03, 2017

8 Demar Road, offered at $849,000 (sold for $855,000). Click any image to enlarge and view as slide show. Hey Dwell magazine fans! Here is your chance to own a stylish and recently updated Mid-Century-Modern classic Techbuilt home, designed by the legendary Carl Koch. What do you love about the design aesthetic? Natural light? An open…

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SOLD! Modern Estate in Dover

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Carleton Richmond, Cecil Wylde, Dover, Kendal Common, SOLD, Walter Bogner On Apr 19, 2017

95 Centre Street in Dover. Offered at $1,350,000 [Sold: $1,365,000]   Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show.  Come home to a an outstanding Mid-Century-Modern country estate. Custom-designed in the International Style by Carleton Richmond, an early student of Bauhaus co-founder, Walter Gropius at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the…

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Video of Carl Koch and Techbuilt in 1954

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Techbuilt, Video On Mar 23, 2017

Courtesy of Scott Hedges, this is the second airing of the Ford Foundation’s TV Radio Workshop show on the “Excursion” and “Omnibus” programs. Hosted by Alistair Cooke and narrated by Burgess Meredith shows the construction of a Techbuilt House its design inspiration in the office of Carl Koch. The show catapulted TechBuilt into the public…

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Sold: Lexington Techbuilt on Almost Two Acres!

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD, Techbuilt, Turning Mill On Feb 26, 2016

Photos by Lara Kimmerer. Click any to enlarge and watch as slide show.   It’s your serve on your own private clay tennis court* in the big level back yard of this expanded Techbuilt Mid-Century-Modern home A long wooded driveway leads the visitor to this privately sited hideaway with four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, and a kitchen that…

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(Sold) Techbuilt Dreamhouse in Lexington

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD, Techbuilt, Turning Mill On Sep 08, 2015

Photos by Lara Kimmerer. Click to enlarge and view as slideshow.  [SOLD for $1,050,000.] THIS is the one! Located on the corner of a cul-de-sac, this large, updated, and expanded mid-century-modern Techbuilt home was designed by Modernist pioneer, Carl Koch. It features a 1000 s.f. 2006 addition which includes a new kitchen, master bedroom, dining room,…

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Lexington Techbuilt Available! Affordable Style and Space.

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Demar Rd., Lexington, Lexington Minuteman, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, Middle Ridge, SOLD, Techbuilt On Jul 14, 2015

Click any picture to enlarge and view in a slide show. Photos by Lara Kimmerer unless otherwise noted.   If you’re dyed-in-the-wool, DON’T COME! If you think early Georgian or Late Cape Cod is just the berries, forget we came in. But if you and your kith enjoy plenty of room and light, believe a…

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Our Tour of Conantum

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Brown's Wood, Carl Koch, Conantum, Concord, Five Fields, Kendal Common, Mid-Century Modern, modernism, New construction, Peacock Farm, Six Moon Hill, Snake Hill, Techbuilt, Video On Nov 19, 2013

In the early 1950s, along 190 acres along the Sudbury River, not far from where Concord, Sudbury, and Lincoln meet, a Modernist neighborhood conceptualized by MIT Economics Professor, W. Rupert Maclaurin, and designed by Techbuilt and Snake Hill architect, Carl Koch, was developed. Renee Garrelick compiled an oral history of the neighborhood in 1986 (archived by the…

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8 Demar Road Featured in Yesterday’s Boston Globe Sunday Magazine

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Boston Globe, Carl Koch, Demar Rd., Lexington, Listings, press, publicity On Nov 12, 2012

Read more here about 8 Demar Road in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Listing post is here.

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Sold: Turning Mill, Lexington

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Carl Koch, Demar Rd., Lexington, Listings, Mid-Century Modern, Middle Ridge, SOLD, Turning Mill On Sep 11, 2012

8 Demar Road. $624,000. Check out the full post below.

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