Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik, who teach architecture at the University at Buffalo, are finishing a book and exhibition project, “Growing Up Modern.” They have traveled widely to interview members of the first families who lived in European homes designed by architects such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. The subjects’ emotions “ranged from embarrassment and apathy to admiration and nostalgia,” the couple wrote in a 2018 essay.
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