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All Posts in Category: Five Fields

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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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The Rise of the Radical Suburbs: Book Excerpt

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Books, Ezra Stoller, Five Fields, Jean Fletcher, Lexington, Sally Harkness, Six Moon Hill, TAC, Walter Gropius On May 04, 2019

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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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 Lluis Sert, Josep Lluís 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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Herbert Bogen 1921-2018

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Herbert L. Bogen On Apr 16, 2018

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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Expanded Five Fields Property

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Architectural Record, Five Fields, Herbert L. Bogen, SOLD On Sep 18, 2017

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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Five Fields Playground

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in dezeen.com, Five Fields, Mater Design On Feb 15, 2017

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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2 Barberry Road and Modernmass on Chronicle

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Listings, press, publicity, real estate for sale, TAC On Jan 12, 2017

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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Five Fields Gem

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, SOLD, TAC, Walter Gropius On Sep 26, 2016

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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Grand 2002-Built Five Fields Home

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Ben Olson Architects, Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, SOLD, TAC, Walter Gropius On Sep 13, 2016

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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Sold: Five Fields TAC-Designed Home

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Lexington, Listings, SOLD, TAC On Mar 09, 2016

32 Barberry Road, offered at $1,275,000. Sold: $1,200,000.  Interior photos by Lara Kimmerer. Exterior by John Tse. Click any to enlarge and view as a slide show. 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…

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Pinned Post: A Brief 2015 Video Tour of Lexington and Lincoln Modernism

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Five Fields, Lexington, lincoln, Mid-Century Modern, Peacock Farm, Six Moon Hill, TAC, Techbuilt On Sep 16, 2015

Here is our primer on the Modernist history of the region.

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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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