The Struggle for Modernism - Architecture, Landscape Architecture & City Planning at Harvard: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard by Alofsin, Anthony - 2002

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2002-06-17. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x8x1. no signs of cover wear, clean glossy, pages clean, bright and unmarked, spine tightListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under 5 lbs please use asendia for the cheapest rates worldwide!

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002. Cloth, 311 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Light foxing, dust spotting/edges & endpapers. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "For the first time in history, what were once the disparate schools of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning came together at Harvard University in the 1930s to forge a new vision of modernist thought and practice. By tracing the powerful flux of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the 1930s and 1940s, Anthony Alofsin reveals a radically novel picture of how American modernism emerged, struggled, evolved, and was ultimately eclipsed. The book follows the development of the GSD leading up to the pioneering deanship of Joseph Hudnut and his groundbreaking efforts with Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, who came to teach at Harvard between 1937 and 1952. But even before Gropius entered the scene, a modernist agenda… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. 311pp Some shipping may require additional charges. First Edition stated. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by B&w illustrations. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002. Large hardback in fine condition with fine condition dust jacket.. Book. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a trace of rubbing. 311 pp., profusely illustrated, endnotes, chronology and index. This remarkable volume tells the unique history of modernism as reflected in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Tracing developments at the GSD, which was home from 1937 to 1952 of 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. 20 color and 250 black and white illustrations; plans

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New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 311pp.incl.index; HB brick w/gilt; slight rub w/corner-bump; PONinscript.,ft.endpaper; clean,tight pgs. DJ tan w/brwn.; slight rub. The development of Harvard"s Graduate School of Design. illus. signed.