Peter McMahon is the Founding Director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, incorporated in 2007 to archive, restore and celebrate the Outer Cape’s outstanding modern architecture and the creative culture that surrounded it. He is co-author, along with Christine Cipriani, of Cape Cod Modern: Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape (2014, Metropolis Books), winner of the Historic new England Book Prize, 2015. Recent lectures include: the Architectural Association (London), Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
His design practice, PM Design, focuses on sustainable, modern architecture and restoration of mid-20th century buildings. His summer house in Wellfleet has been published in House Beautiful and Outside Architecture.