What many consider to be Dame Zaha Hadid’s most prominent style, modern architecture, or modernist architecture, is based on new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete. The central idea for this architectural style is that form should follow function. It is an embrace of minimalism and a rejection of ornament.

One of the most common styles of homes and architecture in Woodbury and the surrounding areas is Greek Revival. The Greek Revival was actually the name of the architectural movement that took place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, primarily in Northern Europe and the United States. The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in 1842.

Philip Johnson’s Glass House located in New Canaan, CT has been an inspiration for us here at Studio Hill since the beginning. The Glass House was built in 1948-49 and is now one of the most historic house museums here in CT. The house is a very early example of the use of industrial materials such as glass and steel in home design.