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A Peek Inside Famous Modernist Enclaves Around the USA

By Dwell @dwell
Originally constructed in 1970, the Wilson residence was updated by the architect couple in 2004. They expanded the home by about a third, but the original design of the rear elevation (seen here at dusk) was largely maintained.

Conceived by forward-thinking developer Robert Davenport in the 1940s and designed by architect Charles Goodman, Hollin Hills is an enclave of some 450 modernist homes outside DC. Many of the early Hollin Hills designs featured standard pitched roofs atypical of mid-century modernism; however, later models introduced a graceful inverted butterfly roof and also a completely flat roof that could still stand up to Virginia’s thunderstorms and winter.

Photo by Eric Laignel.
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