Joseph Hudnut and the unlikely beginnings of post-modern urbanism at the Harvard Bauhaus

Author: Pearlman J.

Source: Planning Perspectives, Volume 15, Number 3, 1 July 2000 , pp. 201-239(39)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

Between 1937 and 1952, from his post at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius successfully promoted a modernist urbanism based on the principles of CIAM (the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne). With the help of his Harvard students and colleagues, especially Martin Wagner (Berlin's city planning director during the Weimar Republic), Gropius' approach to urban design played a key part in shaping the post-war American landscape. In an unlikely twist, Joseph Hudnut, dean of the Graduate School of Design, who had brought Gropius there, became a fierce opponent of Gropius' plans for the modern city. Though he lost the battle he fought with Gropius for the direction of city planning, Hudnut did plant the seeds of a new post-modern urbanism that took root two decades later.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Bowdoin College

Publication date: 2000-07-01

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