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Over time the Bauhaus faculty would include some enduring names in 20th century art and design, including Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. They were all in their different ways ardent modernists, but in its first years the school was caught in a contradiction: a romance with...
Now came much more of the work we think of as quintessentially Bauhaus: spare, sharp-lined products like Marianne Brandt's geometric tea-and-coffee sets and Josef Albers' austere little stacking tables. Marcel Breuer devised his soon-to-be-famous tubular steel chairs with their bands of stretched black...
When Nicholas Fox Weber came to Harvard on Nov. 20 to promote his new biography on famed Modernist architect Le Corbusier, he spoke in the only Le Corbusier building on the entire North American continent—Harvard’s own Carpenter Center. His “Le Corbusier...
C. Frederick Mosteller, the founder of the Harvard’s Statistics Department, died of sepsis on July 23 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church, Virginia. He was 89.Mosteller first came to Harvard in 1946 as a professor in the Department of Social Relations, and he remained on the...
Take the letter D, for instance. Turn it to one side and it's a laughing mouth, to the other and it's a frog's eye. Upside-down, it's a teacup handle. Or take Q. On its side, it's a magnifying glass or a tag on a...