‘The Creation of Mather’
“The thing that is so interesting is how different Mather [House] is from most other architecture at Harvard,” said Co-Master Christie McDonald. “There have been jokes about Mather’s architecture — the use of concrete, for example — but inside, it’s pretty spectacular.” In celebration of the creation of Mather House some 40 years ago, Co-Masters McDonald and her husband Michael Rosengarten have organized a retrospective exhibit of the House’s design and construction in the Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey Three Columns Gallery. An early phase of Mather House's construction. Penny Carlhian, daughter of Mather House architect Jean-Paul Carlhian, put McDonald in touch with Shepley Bulfinch, the architecture firm that built Mather House. The firm’s archivist provided a set of digitized images of the project, including initial models, design specifications, and images of the building’s construction. Rosengarten and McDonald curated the exhibit, which will hold an opening reception for the Harvard community and general...