CAMBRIDGE — “Less is more, ” Mies van der Rohe, he of the towering, steel-ribbed black-glass boxes, once famously proclaimed, though no one seems to have told Harvard Art Museums. Mies, a ...

In 1948, Harkness Commons (also known as the Harvard Graduate Center) was the first Modern building on the Harvard campus, going up around the same time as Le Corbusier’s slab and swoop United ...

The mural in the Harkness Commons dining hall has been christened "The Garden of Eden." Walter Gropius, chief designer of the Graduate Center and judge in the recent contest to name the mural ...

Founded in Weimar, Germany, in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus school taught its students to ... and the third is dedicated to Gropius’ work on the Harvard Graduate Center, ...

MacCarthy gives short shrift to TAC, focusing principally on the Harvard Graduate Center (1950), one of the group’s first joint projects, and spending more time on the art commissions than on ...

Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, and one of the designers of the new Graduate Student Center, urged American colleges to stop "reviving revivals" in designs of their new campus buildings ...

95-98: Gropius, Chairman, Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University including Gropius with Marcel Breuer, Joseph Hudnut, Ise, Richard Neutra, Konrad Waschsmann, and ...

Lucia Moholy, Bauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau,1925–26: Lucia Moholy and László Moholy-Nagy's Living Room, c. 1925.Gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. Harvard Art Museums/Busch ...

As he ends his years of service at the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Iñaki Ábalos has given a Walter Gropius Lecture, customary for departing chairs ...

The structure, which was almost entirely intact and unaltered from its original condition, also held a special place in Gropius’s total portfolio, bridging the gap between the seminal Harvard Graduate ...

At a recent event honoring Pei at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, which he attended from 1942 to 1946, his long-time professional partner Harry Cobb told a resonant story. It seems that when Pei ...