Cinema at the Bruce and Avon Theater presents: The Harvard 5
Sunday, May 31, 11–2pm
Join us on Sunday, May 31 in partnership with Avon Theater as we show the documentary film, The Harvard 5. There will be a light reception at 11am. The film screening will begin at 12pm. There will be a post-screening question-and-answer session with the film’s director at 1pm.
Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for non-members. Registration is required.
The Harvard 5: A Story of Love, Architecture, and a Design Revolution reveals the little-known story of five groundbreaking modernist architects and designers who sparked a revolution in the unlikely setting of New Canaan, Connecticut.
Philip Johnson, John Johansen, Landis Gores, Eliot Noyes, and Marcel Breuer emerged in the years following the Second World War with a bold sense of hope and a belief in the power of design. Their avant-garde ideals and radical homes, often mocked as “Kleenex box houses,” stunned the residents of this traditional New England town.
Despite initial resistance, the Harvard Five found New Canaan to be an ideal canvas for applying Bauhaus principles to American life. What began as a local experiment grew into an intellectual and architectural movement that transformed the community and impacted modern architecture worldwide.
Cinema at the Bruce is in partnership with the Avon Theatre.
