The Struggle for Modernism - Architecture, Landscape Architecture and City Planning at Harvard (Hardcover)

A history of modernism in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard.

Hear author Anthony Alofsin speak on the topic at The University Of Texas, Austin, School of Architecture.

This remarkable volume tells the unique history of modernism as reflected in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Design. Tracing developments at the GSD, which was home from 193752 to 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.