chapter 3 note 4 When Curtis and Davis entered their architectural training, Otto Wagner (1841-1918) had published a landmark book Modern Architektur, 1896; Le Corbusier (1887-1965) had published Vers une Architecture, 1923, and Urbanisme, 1924; the Bauhaus had been established in 1919; the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950) had become the director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1932; also in that year the Museum of Modern Art presented to the American public an exhibition of foreign and native examples of contemporary design, the International Exhibition of Modern Architecture. In 1944, the Museum produced another landmark exhibition, Built in U.S.A., 1932-1944. Nathaniel C. Curtis Sr. was a member of the special advisory committee along with others, such as Serge Chermayeff, Sigfried Giedion, and George Howe. |