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Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Leg
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- Publication Name
- Inventing American Modernism : Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Series
- Center Bks.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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 founder Walter Gropius and his transformation of Harvard's old Beaux-Arts School of Architecture into a "Harvard-Bauhaus," a radically new school with a single outlook. In Inventing American Modernism, Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect these changes alone and, further, that the GSD was not merely an offshoot of the Bauhaus. She offers a crucial missing piece to the story--and to the history of modern architecture--by focusing on Joseph Hudnut, the school?s dean and founder. After heading the architecture school at the University of Virginia, and then at Columbia University, Hudnut created the GSD at Harvard in 1936, before Gropius was appointed, and he headed the school until 1953, the year after Gropius resigned. From the beginning, Hudnut gave the GSD its modern pedagogical direction, and he continued to oversee its curriculum and staffing for the next seventeen years. Although originally an admirer of Gropius's work and theories, Hudnut came to clash with him over the control of the direction of modern architecture and planning in the United States Gropius won the battle, but Pearlman shows that, had the GSD followed the path Hudnut wanted, modern architecture and the modern city might well have been different. In his role as public intellectual, Hudnut wielded an influence that reached outside the university, distinguished by his encouraging people to participate in the architectural and urbanistic matters that affected their lives. A story involving European modernists such as Marcel Breuer, Martin Wagner, and Christopher Tunnard, as well as a number of other architects, city planners, and landscape architects, this book is more than the study of a single school; it is a look at the origins of modernism at a defining moment in the history of twentieth-century architecture. Published in association with the Center for American Places
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University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813926025
ISBN-13
9780813926025
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57267545
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Inventing American Modernism : Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Series
Center Bks.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
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Na2304.H37p43 2007
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College Graduate Student
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"Hundnut provided the institutional infrastructure for substantial changes in the way in which architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning have been taught in the United States and abroad ever since. He was also one of the most perceptive critics of the results. Pearlman's book restores him to the center of the emergence of modern architecture." -- Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Jill Pearlman's book is a very well researched and enthralling account of interactions and, indeed, clashes between two individuals who shaped modern architectural education at Harvard and beyond. It not only returns Hudnut, deservedly, nearer to center stage, but fills in numerous gaps and sheds light on important episodes in the Graduate School of Design's rise to prominence, that have gone unnoticed. From a contemporary insider's perspective, Pearlman's central arguments are compelling. They answer questions that many of us have wondered about.|9780813926025|, "Jill Pearlman's book is a very well researched and enthralling account of interactions and, indeed, clashes between two individuals who shaped modern architectural education at Harvard and beyond. It not only returns Hudnut, deservedly, nearer to center stage, but fills in numerous gaps and sheds light on important episodes in the Graduate School of Design's rise to prominence that have gone unnoticed. From a contemporary insider's perspective, Pearlman's central arguments are compelling. They answer questions that many of us have wondered about." -- Peter G. Rowe
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Economic History, Individual Architects & Firms / General, Regional
Lccn
2006-028539
Dewey Decimal
720.9
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Architecture, Business & Economics
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