Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard

by Jill Pearlman

Book Overview

From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects, planners, teachers, and students from all over the world looked to the new GSD, with its celebrated faculty and curriculum, for the path to modern design. While the school?s significance is widely recognized by architectural historians, most studies have concentrated on the Bauhaus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813926025
• ISBN13: 9780813926025
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.8"