By Susan Horowitz
“Barbara Neski was an inspirational figure to so many, and shaped the Hamptons at a special time.” —Paul Goldberger
Initially studying art, art history, and mathematics at Bennington, Barbara Goldberg was inspired to become an architect after viewing Marcel Breuer’s Robinson House. This led her to choose the Bauhaus-oriented Harvard GSD program created by director Walter Gropius, becoming one of its first women graduates in 1952. There, she was especially drawn to the teaching of Buckminster Fuller.