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Author Herdeg, Klaus.

Title The decorated diagram : Harvard architecture and the failure of the Bauhaus legacy / Klaus Herdeg
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1983]
©1983

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  720.973 Gropius Her/Ddh  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 125 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents 1. Harvard architects and the Bauhaus ethos -- 2. Buildings: Design confusion and its results -- 3. Teaching: A critique of the Gropius method -- 4. Buildings and convictions
Summary 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
Analysis United States Architectural design Influence of Gropius, Walter, 1937-1953
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 -- Influence.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design -- Influence.
Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- United States.
Architecture, American.
Architecture, Modern -- United States -- 20th century.
LC no. 82024983
ISBN 026208127X