Word: hudnut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hudnut also arranged the creation of the undergraduate architectural science program. And later, he, together with George H. Perkins, then chairman of Regional Planning and now Dean of the Pennsylvania Design school, created the integrated first year program for concentrators in the three Design departments...
...difficult now to perceive an objective picture of Gropius by talking to the faculty. Since most of his supporters have left, the ones that remain will usually portray Hudnut as the misunderstood man, and Gropins as the unyielding genius. To the outside observer, there can be no real facts. Everything said by a professor or instructor is tainted with the bitter feelings of the quarrel...
...wonder, then, that Hudnut felt responsible for much of the school's success. He had taken over a poor school with little reputation, and he had strengthened the faculty and enlarged the program. The school's planning department, the first of its kind in the United States, had grown and the architecture departments were run by some of the best teachers in the world...
Even without direct contact with the entire student body, Gropius did give Design a point of view. He was an innovator in educational techniques and he backed his own theories of architecture. Many say that Hudnut, on the other hand, never actually made his philosophy of art clear. His disagreements with Gropius seemed to most completely personal...
...difficult to trace the beginnings of the animosity. Hudnut came to the school in 1933 with a distinguished reputation, not as a great innovator, but as a sound thinker and writer. He was responsible for integrating the three separate departments, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning into a single School of Desing. He brought Gropius to the school in 1937, when Gropius was one of the world's most famous architects and educators, the man who developed multiple dwellings and expanded a new concept of functional beauty in the Bauhaus at Dessau, Germany, from...