Harvard Five

The Harvard Five, a group of architects who in the 1940s in New Canaan (Connecticut) settled: John M. Johansen, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Philip Johnson and Eliot Noyes. Marcel Breuer was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, while Gores, Johansen, Johnson and Noyes studied there.

They were all under the influence of Walter Gropius, head of the Architecture degree program at Harvard.

The small town of New Canaan is known for its numerous buildings of modern architecture. Around 100 modern homes were built there; about 20 of them have already been demolished. Meanwhile, however, four were listed on the National Register of Historic Places of the United States: the Glass House by Johnson, Landis Gores the House, the Richard and Geraldine Hodgson House and the Noyes House.

Other renowned architect lived in New Canaan and designed houses for themselves and their clients, including John Black Lee, Hugh Smallen, Victor Christ- Janer, Alan Goldberg, and Carl Koch.