Jill Pearlman
Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard
Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press,
2007.
288 pp.; 86 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780813926025)
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The American architectural educator Joseph Hudnut (1886–1968) lived long enough to know the place he would occupy in history: the man who brought Walter Gropius to Harvard. The founding dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) had indeed recruited the creator of the Bauhaus to head the school’s department of architecture in 1937 as part of his own crusade to wipe out Beaux-Arts methods in the United States. By the time both men...