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Rendering of the Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Magee house by architect Robert Metcalf, 1956.

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House for Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Patterson by architect Robert Metcalf, 1956.

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Rendering for the Marshall Sahlins house by Robert Metcalf, 1957.

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COVID hit in 2019, the year of the Internet's 50th anniversary. It was almost as if we had built the Internet for COVID. Zoom was there and soon everyone was using it. Now many of us have had a taste of remote work and remote education. We are experimenting with the economies of massive substitution of communication for transportation. This will play out over the next decade. And the impacts will be massive and beneficial. Therefore, I like to say that COVID is short for collaborative video.

--Robert Metcalf , quoted in "People of ACM" newsletter

"Robert Melancton Metcalfe is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas at Austin and a Research Affiliate in Computational Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

He is the recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet."

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$998,000/4 br/2960 sq ft

Ann Arbor, MI

Robert Metcalf, 1958

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Robert Metcalf: Architect, Professor and “Dean of Mod”

“Metcalf always included furniture in his sketches, often by the mid-century pioneers like Eames, Bertoia, Nakashima. He would purchase pieces at a discounted rate and would sell the furniture to his client at-cost, because the space was built specifically for that chair, table, or sofa.”

“Furnishings were as important as the home’s design. He was a perfectionist that way.”

“One of the things I loved about him was that he wasn’t out for the profit, fame, or glory. He considered it an honor to build the homes that his clients were going to raise their families in, so there was no cutting corners. He did things right because that’s just how you did them. To live in this house, and to have known him, someone of that character with that much generosity, and pride in his work– I consider myself very fortunate. I wish everyone could have known him. Though I’m sure he’s looking down right now wishing I would move this or that to the left or to the right.”

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