The decorated diagram: Harvard architecture and the failure of the Bauhaus legacyIn 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. |
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Contents
HARVARD ARCHITECTS AND THE BAUHAUS ETHOS | 2 |
DESIGN CONFUSION AND ITS RESULTS | 36 |
A CRITIQUE OF THE GROPIUS METHOD | 78 |
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| Title | The decorated diagram: Harvard architecture and the failure of the Bauhaus legacy |
| Author | Klaus Herdeg |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | MIT Press, 1983 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 13, 2007 |
| ISBN | 026208127X, 9780262081276 |
| Length | 125 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / General Architecture / History / General Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General Architecture / Regional Education / Higher |
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