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Tag: Walter Gropius
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Nation & World
Competing visions
Ahead of Harvard football’s annual showdown with Yale, two art historians got into the competitive spirit.
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Nation & World
Harvard: America’s Bauhaus home
Walter Gropius, who would become a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, founded the Bauhaus movement in Germany and ensured that much of its output would have a final home at the University. An exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums features that material.
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Nation & World
Eyes on ‘America,’ with hope of drawing more
Christopher E.G. Benfey lectured on “America,” a wall designed by Josef Albers, as part of GSD’s “Then and Now” series.
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Nation & World
Gripes between bites
A Pusey Library exhibit, “Dining and Discontentment,” is just one of many at Harvard that illustrate the power of investigating material artifacts in order to understand the past.
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Nation & World
Getting to 50
Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, soon turning 50, was celebrated at the Graduate School of Design through a visit from its first director, Eduard Sekler, along with early faculty and students.
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Nation & World
An intimate body of work
An intimate exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum offers viewers a look at a body of largely unknown photographic work by one of the most versatile talents of the modern art movement in Germany.
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Nation & World
75 years of innovation
Exhibit at the Graduate School of Design reflects life and trends from Gropius to Gehry.
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Nation & World
The gifts of immigration
Two Harvard researchers say that new U.S. residents, most of whom are young and nonwhite, reflect not just policy challenges, but an immense reservoir of social potential.
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Nation & World
The art of architecture
Harvard’s campus reflects three centuries of architectural history, and a practiced intimacy that draws people together.
