A New Owner With a Light Touch Restores Marcel Breuer’s Hooper House II

The 1959 gem is a textbook example of the legendary modernist’s classic “binuclear” house.

This story was published in Dwell’s December/January 2009 issue.

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Philip Kennicott
As culture critic for the Washington Post, Phillip Kennicott regularly laments the lack of interesting contemporary architecture in the nation's capital.

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