Dec 23, 2009

1930's Fashion | The International Style: Architecture Since 1922

Nonfiction work, Architectural designs

By: Henry-Russell Hitchcock Jr. and Philip Johnson

Date: 1932

Source: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Jr., and Philip Johnson. The International Style: Architecture Since 1922. New York: W.W. Norton, 1932, 18–23.

About the Authors: Henry-Russell Hitchcock Jr. (1903–1987), widely considered the founder of modern architectural history, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University, New York University, the Universities of Glasgow and Pennsylvania, and Wesleyan University. Throughout his career as an educator and architecture historian, he received numerous awards, wrote more than twenty books covering a wide range of topics, lectured extensively, and produced a number of influential architectural exhibits. He died in 1987 in New York.

Philip Johnson (1906–) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied...

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