Mid Century Modern
Innovative homes that blend clean lines, functionality, and sustainability.
Mid Century Modern
2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom
32’x56′ / 1,792 square feet (without patio)
Starting at $375,400, plus shipping.
Our Mid-Century Modern floorplan, inspired by the Phillip Johnson Glass House, offers a sleek 2-bedroom, 2-bath design spanning 32′ x 56′. With its clean lines and architectural finesse, it’s perfect for those who appreciate the minimalist aesthetic. Select your interior and exterior colors to match your style. Choose between three or four glass walls for a connection with nature.
Tailor your space further by opting for an empty shell or a fully finished home with electrical, plumbing, HVAC, a full kitchen, and bathrooms. The Mid Century Modern design embraces timeless elegance and modern simplicity. Click the “Choose Materials” button below to get started.
This is completely site-built quality with additional insulation.
If your property’s building department produces a verifiable letter confirming ‘reciprocal acceptance’ or will accept the Texas Modular Certified Building Code, updated to IRC 2021, then we can review the building zone and possibly ship you the home. This must be a verifiable letter and does not guarantee purchase.
The American Glass House Era of Our Mid-Century Modern Home
New Canaan, the Harvard Five, and the mid-century modern home in America
Our Mid-Century Modern home belongs to a distinctly American moment. After the Second World War, the European modernism of the Bauhaus crossed the Atlantic and took root at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and his former colleague Marcel Breuer were teaching. A circle of their students and peers — later known as the Harvard Five: Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, and Eliot Noyes — settled in the wooded town of New Canaan, Connecticut, about an hour from New York, and turned it into a laboratory for a new kind of American house.1,2
Beginning with Eliot Noyes’s own home in 1947, the group built experimental residences defined by clean lines, open plans, and walls of glass that dissolved the boundary between indoors and out.3 The best known of them, the Glass House of 1949, drew national attention, and the architects followed it with a series of modern house tours; by the end of the 1950s dozens of modern homes had risen among New Canaan’s hills, and more than a hundred by the 1970s.2 Several survive on the National Register of Historic Places today.4 Our Mid-Century Modern home carries that spirit forward: the open plan, the glass wall that turns the landscape into living space, and the optimistic, unornamented clarity of the postwar American home.
1. New Canaan Modernism — SAH Archipedia and Harvard Five — Wikipedia : the five Harvard-trained architects, and the influence of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, who brought the Bauhaus to Harvard in 1937.
2. New Canaan Modern Homes Survey — The Glass House (National Trust): the Harvard Five as a center of experimental modern design; the 1949 Glass House sensation; the modern house tours; over 100 modern homes built by the 1970s.
3. New Canaan Modernism — SAH Archipedia: Eliot Noyes completed the first of these houses for his own family in 1947.
4. The Harvard Five — Sarah Blank Design Studio: houses listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, including the Landis Gores House, the Hodgson House, the Glass House, and the Noyes House.
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Design Statement
Inspired by the concept of biophilia, The Glass Boxes finds its creative drive in the innate human connection with nature. In homage to iconic architects like Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, our innovative homes blend clean lines, functionality, and sustainability, all while inviting the natural world inside through generous glass windows, creating spaces that harmonize with the environment and enrich the lives of their inhabitants.