As the Twig Is Bent, So Goes the Tree …
A Shared Philosophy: New England
Transcendentalism and European Modernism

The Lincoln Historical Society in collaboration with FoMA
a Virtual presentation By Lincoln resident and FoMA President
Dana Robbat 



On Saturday, June 12, 2021,
 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Dana Robbat, President of the Friends of Modern Architecture/Lincoln (FoMA), author, and architectural historian, presented As the Twig Is Bent, So Goes the Tree … A Shared Philosophy: New England Transcendentalism and European Modernism. The presentation and slideshow highlighted the age-old social ideals of New England’s Puritan and Transcendental philosophical heritage that provided fertile ground for the arrival of the philosophically-aligned European Modernists who arrived at Harvard and MIT in the late 1930s and subsequently had a profound effect on Lincoln’s built and natural environments. Dana discussed highlights from her work Plain Living, High Thinking: Social Idealists and their Transcendental Architecture and the historical arc of Modernism in Lincoln. 

View the presentation via the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l3u_i_zf8JaFQujRnOlk2z8Xf012V-Af/view?usp=sharing

View the slides via the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j3xVgSb1j2i5sKd3oTJG6l22fA1ZRgKT/view?usp=sharing