The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy Book

In answering the critic Clement Greenberg's query "why all those ugly buildings?" Klaus Herdeg lays the blame directly at the feet of Walter Gropius and the curriculum at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Herdeg contends that the work of many of America's leading architects who studied under Gropius-Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei. John Johannsen, and Edward Barnes among them - commands visual interest through an almost total absence of design, resulting in the banal and sterile quality of so much of modern architecture. He builds his case through meticulous comparisons of dozens of buildings. Klaus Herdeg is Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.Read More

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  • 026208127X
  • 9780262081276
  • K Herdeg
  • 1 January 1983
  • MIT Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 125
  • illustrated edition
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