Editing New Canaan, Connecticut (section)

===The "Harvard Five" and modern homes===

New Canaan was an important center of the modern design movement from the late 1940s through roughly the 1960s, when about 80 modern homes were built in town. About 20 have been torn down since then.<ref name="gurliacci">{{Cite web |url=http://www.fairfieldcountybusinessjournal.com/archive/010906/topstory1.html |title=Fairfield County Business Authority &#124; Westfair Communications |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102122746/http://www.fairfieldcountybusinessjournal.com/archive/010906/topstory1.html |archive-date=January 2, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

"During the late 1940s and 1950s, a group of students and teachers from the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]] migrated to New Canaan ... and rocked the world of architectural design", according to an article in PureContemporary.com, an online architecture design magazine. "[[Philip Johnson]], [[Marcel Breuer]], [[Landis Gores]], [[John M. Johansen]] and [[Eliot Noyes]]{{spaced ndash}}known as the [[Harvard Five]]{{spaced ndash}}began creating homes in a style that emerged as the complete antithesis of the traditional build. Using new materials and open floor plans, best captured by Johnson's [[Glass House]], these treasures are being squandered as buyers are knocking down these architectural icons and replacing them with cookie-cutter new builds."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.purecontemporary.com/HomeMakeover/article/19 |title=Mid-Century Harvard Five modern home is updated with a Snaidero kitchen by Stephen & Kristen King &#124; Pure Contemporary |access-date=February 6, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021081904/http://www.purecontemporary.com/HomeMakeover/article/19 |archive-date=October 21, 2008 }} PureContemporary.com accessed July 2, 2006</ref>

"Other architects, well-known ([[Frank Lloyd Wright]], for example) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today&nbsp;... New Canaan came to be the focus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form", according to an online description of ''The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Mid-Century Modern Houses,'' by William D. Earls.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393731839/102-8451043-6653762?v=glance&n=283155|title=The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Midcentury Modern Houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, and Others|first=search|last=results|date=July 17, 2006|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-73183-5 |access-date=December 3, 2018|via=Amazon}}</ref>

Some other New Canaan architects designing modern homes were Victor Christ-Janer, John Black Lee, Allan Gelbin, and [[Hugh Smallen]].<ref name="gurliacci" />

The film ''[[The Ice Storm (film)|The Ice Storm]]'' (1997) shows many of New Canaan's modern houses, both inside and out. The film (and [[Rick Moody]]'s novel of the same name, upon which it is based) takes place in New Canaan; a mostly glass house situated on Laurel Road is prominently featured.