A buyer of one of our listings was kind enough to pass along this excerpt of what promises to be a fascinating book, from Architect: the Journal of the American Institute of Architects.
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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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We were very sorry to learn of the passing of one of our clients, the architect and urban planner, Herbert Bogen. The design sketch of the house he built in 1953 in Five Fields for his family was the inspiration for our logo. We wish his family and friends our condolences.
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13 Barberry Road, Lexington $1,249,000 (Sold for $1,360,000) Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show: A special offering of a modernist classic, renovated and expanded in 2010. The Bogen House — designed by Herbert L. Bogen for his family and featured in the Architectural Record in 1962 — strikes a sleek…
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Matter Design’s architectural play equipment encourages kids to crawl, jump and fly Dan Howarth | Published 22 hours ago 1 comment Intersecting wood-clad volumes create a playground for children in a Massachusetts suburb to scurry through, clamber over and zip-wire from. The Five Fields Play Structure was designed by Brandon Clifford of Matter Design and…
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We were happy to be approached by the long-running local television program, Chronicle for their latest “History For Sale” episode, featuring 2 Barberry Road. Watch it here. We ar the second part of the segment, at 2:54.
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SOLD: 464 Concord Ave. Five Fields, Lexington. Offered at $899,000. Photos by Lara Kimmerer unless otherwise noted. Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. Great opportunity to own in the highly sought-after Five Fields neighborhood for under $1 million. Sited back from the road on a private wooded backyard abutting conservation, the…
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2 Barberry Road, Five Fields, Lexington. Offered at $1,895,000 (Sold) Photos by Lara Kimmerer unless otherwise noted. Click any photo to enlarge and view as a slide show. Open houses Saturday, September 17 1:00-3:00 and Sunday, September 18, 12:30-2:30. Contact us with questions or to request a showing. A rare opportunity to own this 2002-built* grand…
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32 Barberry Road, offered at $1,275,000. Sold: $1,200,000. This extremely well-maintained Modernist classic luxuriates in a professionally landscaped half-acre lush lot in the highly sought-after, historically significant Five Fields, a pioneering neighborhood designed and developed by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in the 1950s. Walls of insulated glass welcomes the outdoor views and bathes the house…
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Here is our primer on the Modernist history of the region.
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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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A truly excellent and comprehensive article by Linda Matchan that captures what makes Five Fields so special. Link here. Excerpt: …It is part of a small, tightknit, and, for its time, radical community of modernist homes known as Five Fields. The neighborhood, established in the postwar 1950s by a group of local architects, including…
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