EDUCATION

CCMHT works with regional and international schools of architecture providing tours, lectures, and access to archival materials needed for study of the Cape’s modern buildings. Every spring semester in partnership with Nauset Regional High School’s architectural design program (Eastham, MA), students re-design one of the CCMHT restored houses through drawings and models. This culminates with two graduating seniors receiving the annual Young Architects Award and a $500 scholarship from CCMHT. Most of these students have entered college level design programs

The book Cape Cod Modern (by Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani, (Metropolis Books, 2014, Historic New England Book Prize, 2015, and over 14,000 copies in print) was used in 2020 by classes at the Architecture Departments at the University of Granada, Spain, and the Institut für Wohnbau und Grundlagen des Entwerfens, Achen, Germany, and has become the definitive source on the history of modern architecture on the Cape.

CCMHT has collaborated with Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Wentworth Institute in Boston on semester-long projects and hosted tours and lectures for RISD, Univ. of Virginia Architecture School, MIT, and many others.

For the Harvard project in spring 2012, students created a film re-imagining the Hatch Cottage and its landscape through a combination of documentation footage and digital animation. The following summer the work-in-progress was presented by the students and Harvard faculty at Preservation Hall in Wellfleet.

Over the years design students have provided the crucial service of surveying and drawing plans for several modern houses here for which there was no documentation. This opportunity also provided an invaluable tool for deep understanding of the buildings and their innovative designers.