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A history of modernism in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard.
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Alofsin (architecture, U. of Texas, Austin) has written a detailed history of the people and development of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (where he was a student in the 1970s). The foundation of the school by combining schools of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning; the presence and influence at the school of well-known modernists such as Walter Gropius; the development of modernist theories of design and their implementation; and the intellectual and administrative trajectories of the school's leaders and principle thinkers are some of the subjects. The book is well illustrated with high quality plates. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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