Joseph Hudnut

Joseph F. Hudnut
BornMarch 27, 1886
Big Rapids, Michigan
DiedJanuary 16, 1968(1968-01-16) (aged 81)
Norwood, Massachusetts
Education
1st Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
In office
1933–1936
Succeeded byJosep Lluís Sert
Dean of Columbia University’s School of Architecture
In office
1936–1953
Preceded byWilliam A. Boring
Succeeded byLeopold Arnaud

Joseph F. Hudnut (March 27, 1886 – January 16, 1968)[1] was an American architect scholar and professor who was the first dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He was responsible for bringing the German modernist architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer to the Harvard faculty.[2]

  1. ^ K. Edward Lay (January 2000). The Architecture of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. University of Virginia Press. pp. 282–. ISBN 978-0-8139-1885-3.
  2. ^ Marie Ann Frank (2011). Denman Ross and American Design Theory. UPNE. pp. 250–. ISBN 978-1-61168-012-6.