Leonard J. Currie Slide Collection

Harvard and Copán

Harvard

Drawings by Leonard Currie, 1938.
Hagerty House, Cohasset, Massachusetts,
Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, architects.
Breuer design.
Completed 1938.

In 1937 Currie entered the graduate program at Harvard, where he studied architecture with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. He graduated in 1938. 

Copán

Restoring walls
Leonard Currie restoring a maize god sculpture at Copán
Carnegie Institute restoration at Copán. 1941

Currie then worked with Gropius and Breuer for close to three years until he received Harvard’s Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship and joined the Carnegie Institute’s expedition to restore the Mayan ruins at Copán in Honduras. There were no roads to the ruins, so Leonard and Virginia traveled many hours on horseback with their two small children to reach them.