STRUGGLE FOR MODERNISM: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND CITY PLANNING AT HARVARD

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Product Description This remarkable volume tells the unique history of modernism as reflected in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Tracing developments at the GSD, which was home from 1937 to 1952 of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Anthony Alofsin reveals that America had initiated its own modern agenda before the arrival of the European modernist ideology. Filled with archival photographs and plans that have never been published before, this book will be of great interest to students and professionals in the fields of art, architecture, and design, as well as to architectural historians. Review Alofsin does a fine job of introducing readers in the postmodern era to the social and political roots of [the] genre. – Laurel McSherry (Landscape Architecture)Anyone interested in the…question of what consituted ?modern? in the first half of the 20th century, should read this book. – M. Frank, University of Massachusetts, Lowell About the Author Anthony Alofsin is Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.