Rohan Khanna

Gropius House

Eighteen photographs. Lincoln, Massachusetts, 2025.

The house Walter Gropius built for his family in Lincoln, Massachusetts, in 1938, when he came to teach at Harvard, on an afternoon in October: from the rooms inside, out through the glass to the terrace and the garden.

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A room lined with books: a lounge chair draped in sheepskin under a lit lamp, a striped daybed, a leather sofa, and a wide window onto pines.The living room from its far end: the daybed and sofa, a curtain drawn half across, the dining table beyond.A fireplace in a textured wall with a sculpture above it, chairs and plants around it, seen past a curtain.A dark, spined sculpture on a stone base against a rough plaster wall, behind the leaves of a plant.Shelves of books above a ledge of shells, stones, a folding fan and small objects.A desk under a window in a corner study, papers and a lamp on it, a framed picture on the wall, a doorway through to the room beyond.Woven baskets and stacked plates beside a mirrored cabinet door, the photographer reflected in it.A bedroom: an embroidered red textile hung above the bed, a lamp lit on either side.The bed close up: a ribbed white cover with a black patterned cloth across it.A jade plant in a clay pot on a windowsill, the trees outside through the glass.The dining room seen through its glass from outside: a round table and chairs, the trees reflected over them.The terrace under its slender columns, the living room's lamps through the long windows.A stone terrace beside the long windows, opening onto the lawn and trees.A long window set in the white board siding.A wall of glass block beside the white siding, a spiral stair up the side of the house.The entrance under its canopy, glass block beside the door, a tall cut sculpture in the planting in front.A tall white cut sculpture and a pine on the lawn, seen from beside the house.A boulder on the lawn, the house and its wing behind it among the trees.