Eight thousand years ago, New England ’s coastline underwent a profound rebirthing as new land forms began appearing from beneath the weight of a glacial ice sheet. Where the mile high glacier came to a stop, melting water ran into rivers, and deposited sand and clay at the glacier’s edge.
The sandy Cape we know today was originally far more massive but quickly found itself in a dynamic relationship with sea level rise and ocean currents. Stretching out fifty miles into the Atlantic Ocean, the shoreline is continually eroded by the tides, reminding us of the fragile nature of this unique landform.
Cape Cod offers unique settings of oak and pine forests carpeted with wintergreen and blueberry, 200 fresh water ponds teeming with fish and bird life, and sand dunes full of bayberry and beach plum reaching out to miles of white beach.
This pristine natural environment with its exceptional light and clean air has been a source of inspiration for artists and architects for four centuries. Cape Cod's vernacular architecture includes shingled cottages with rose-strewn fences, saltboxes, grand Federal houses once home to sea captains, Greek Revivals, Victorian farm houses and French Second Empire. Some of the finest examples of Modernist architecture and Bauhaus influence were constructed during the 1950’s and 1960’s in the woods of Truro and Wellfleet. They were cottages of well known architects working in New York and Boston and spending summers on the Cape . They experimented with a vocabulary which touched down lightly on the landscape.
 The opportunity to work in this environment is a privilege and a challenge. Each building is a response to the unique features of each site and the context in which it is situated.