John
'Rudd' Falconer
Rudd Falconer was born in 1925 in Seneca Falls, New York. He studied at Brown University as an undergraduate and then received a B Arch from Cornell. After working in construction in Trinidad and serving in the Navy, he lived and practiced for eleven years in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he was on the town’s Planning Board. In the years that followed Falconer ran his own design/build firm in Missouri and Puerto Rico, taught architecture at Washington University, Cornell and The University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, and worked as a sail-maker in Beaufort, North Carolina. He finally settled in Bayfield, Wisconsin in 1993 where he practiced until his semi-retirement. He also served as a researcher and consultant on issues of building technologies in developing countries. As a young man he was inspired by the “Case Study" houses being built by Neutra, Eames and Ellwood in California. He traveled to the west coast several times in the ‘50s and had the opportunity to talk to Charles Eames and John Ertenza at Eames’ house. Falconer designed ‘Hidden Village’ in Eastham in 1960.
Rudd Falconer was born in 1925 in Seneca Falls, New York. He studied at Brown University as an undergraduate and then received a B Arch from Cornell. After working in construction in Trinidad and serving in the Navy, he lived and practiced for eleven years in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he was on the town’s Planning Board. In the years that followed Falconer ran his own design/build firm in Missouri and Puerto Rico, taught architecture at Washington University, Cornell and The University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, and worked as a sail-maker in Beaufort, North Carolina. He finally settled in Bayfield, Wisconsin in 1993 where he practiced until his semi-retirement. He also served as a researcher and consultant on issues of building technologies in developing countries. As a young man he was inspired by the “Case Study" houses being built by Neutra, Eames and Ellwood in California. He traveled to the west coast several times in the ‘50s and had the opportunity to talk to Charles Eames and John Ertenza at Eames’ house. Falconer designed ‘Hidden Village’ in Eastham in 1960.
Hidden Village Cottage Colony, Eastham, 1960
There are six cottages in the complex, eachwith a flying V roof.