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Lawrence Halprin presents Walter Gropius with a birthday
cake;
one of a series of photographs taken at a GSD Beaux-Arts Ball in the early 1940s.
As detailed in Jill Pearlman's "Joseph Hudnut's Other Modernism..." (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 56:4, December 1997, pp.452-477), Joseph Hudnut was appointed Dean of the newly-formed Graduate School of Design in 1936. He was to initiate dramatic changes in focus, curriculum and in faculty appointments; best-known, perhaps, among the last, the naming of Walter Gropius as Chair of the Architecture Department.
Displayed are images, printed items and primary materials, drawn from the collections, which offer vivid documentation of this decade of innovation and change. Currently on Exhibit in the Frances Loeb Library, Lower Level
Hours for viewing: Monday-Friday, 1:00pm-4:45pm