Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture
Boston, Massachusetts
Washington, D.C.
As the center of domestic life, the house is perhaps the most
important building type in a democratic society. Historic New England’s
exhibition, Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England, showcases
a variety of drawings of domestic buildings that range in date from the
late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, and depict an array of
building types — estates, modest single-family houses, summer cottages,
and even a typical Boston multi-family dwelling known as a three-decker.
Drawing Toward Home illustrates changes in taste and
technology and presents these drawings as works of art. The
exhibition includes designs by both famous and little-known architects
and houses designed in the Federal, Victorian, Arts and Crafts, and
International styles. Home ownership is the American Dream. As products
of the architect’s craft, the drawings in this exhibition bring these
and other associations to the mind of the viewer.
The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., originally exhibited Drawing Toward Home in 2010. An illustrated hardcover publication was produced in conjunction with the exhibition and is available for purchase.
For more information, to request a prospectus, or inquire about a rental fee, please e-mail exhibition rentals.
Partners:
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
National Building Museum
