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Discusses the influence of the teachings of Walter Gropius at Harvard during the forties on modern world architecture
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"The Decorated Diagram is an intellectual's version of From Bauhaus to Our House.... Relying on a series of breathtaking sophisticated formal analyses, Herdeg concludes that most of today's buildings are 'curiously passionless' because they are built by former students of Gropius.... Herdeg's brilliant essay cuts across realms of modern, latemodern, and postmodern into a far more exciting and illuminating sphere."
- Sarah Williams, Architectural Record
"Among the more devastating comparisons are Johnson's and Franzen's respective facade designs for apartment buildings at 1001 and 800 Fifth Avenue with to Corbusier's Besnos House, Johnson's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery with Schinkel's Altes Museum, and Barnes's master plan for the S.U.N.Y campus at Purchase with Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia. Never in any doubt, the final score is Harvard zero and History three. Herdeg possesses a keen eye and an incisive style. He is at his best in these critiques."
- Mary N. Woods, Progressive Architecture
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- PublisherMit Pr
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 026208127X
- ISBN 13 9780262081276
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages125
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Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy
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MIT Press (MA) January 1983, 1983
ISBN 10: 026208127X
ISBN 13: 9780262081276
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. 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. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector. Book is inscribed. Seller Inventory # 297453
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The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy
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MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983
ISBN 10: 026208127X
ISBN 13: 9780262081276
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. White titles on red cloth, 125 pages including notes and credits. Dust jacket protected by clear plastic. Normal library markings. Seller Inventory # 015918
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The Decorated Diagram Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy.
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Cambridge & London: The MIT Press, [1983]., 1983
ISBN 10: 026208127X
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. vii, 125. 120 illus. cloth. dw. First Edition. Seller Inventory # ARDeHERD95
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The Decorated Diagram:; Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy
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MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983
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ISBN 13: 9780262081276
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(+). First edition (unstated). Quarto in red DJ, vii, 125 pages, b&w illustrations; 26 cm. Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Contents: Preface -- 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 -- Appendixes -- A. Three Student Problem Formulations by Walter Gropius -- B. Bulletin, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1946-1947 (Excerpts) -- Notes -- Illustration Credits. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Two small scuffs to spine foot edges, one tiny scuff to spine head edge, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, small tear to rear DJ, light sunning and soiling in DJ, bright pages, tight binding, else Near fine(+) in Very good DJ. Seller Inventory # 88344
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