The Cold War-Era US Embassy Program & Modern New Canaan

On view through June 13, 2026, at the Onera Foundation, New Canaan, Connecticut.

This exhibition highlights the mid-century embassies built in The Hague and in Dublin by architects Marcel Breuer and John Johansen respectively.  Johansen and Breuer were two of the Harvard Five, a group of famous Harvard graduates who settled in New Canaan beginning in the late 1940s.  Both architects designed significant homes in New Canaan prior to designing their embassy projects.  The exhibition examines how the architects’ early experimentations in domestic design and architecture informed and inspired the modern language they later brought to their diplomatic architecture.