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Post-Shaker Art Colony - An Experiment on Symmetry and Dualism

Project locationNew Lebanon, US
University/SchoolHarvard University Graduate School of Design
Lead ArchitectZhonghan Huang

Shakers are a millenarian nontrinitarian restorationist Christian sect founded circa 1747 in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s. Their buildings exhibit unique dualism and symmetry that are embedded in spatial organization, circulation, architectural elements, furniture, objects, etc. The design investigates dualism and symmetry in Shakers’ buildings, and invents new building types that belong to Shakers but haven’t been done by Shakers. Workshop, artist studio, single-family house, and gallery are designed for the Shaker Village in New Lebanon in New York state.