1950's Fashion | "Our Architecture Is Our Portrait"

Magazine article

By: John McAndrew

Date: January 18, 1953

Source: McAndrew, John. "Our Architecture Is Our Portrait." The New York Times Magazine, January 18, 1953, 12–14.

About the Author: John McAndrew (1904–1978) was born in New York and graduated from Harvard University at the age of nineteen. He became the architecture curator of New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1937 and completed his master's degree in architecture in 1940. For the majority of his career, from 1945 to 1968, he taught in Wellesly College's art department. After his retirement, when he learned that the city of Venice needed major architectural repairs to avoid sinking into the sea, he founded Save Venice, Inc. to preserve the city.

Introduction

Bauhaus architecture was widely popular in both industrial and private settings across the United States in the 1950s. Its most famous...