Howard Dearstyne

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Howard Dearstyne (born August 2, 1903 in Albany ; died March 7, 1979 in Alexandria ) was an American architect and architectural historian trained at the Bauhaus .

Life

Howard Dearstyne studied from 1921 at Columbia University and graduated in 1925 with a BA. He then studied medicine for a year, came into contact with the art collector Albert C. Barnes and began to be interested in art. After a trip to Europe, he studied architecture at the Columbia School of Architecture from 1926 . In 1928 he stayed on his second trip to Europe at the Bauhaus in Dessau , where he studied with Mies van der Rohe , Wassily Kandinsky and Ludwig Hilberseimer and others. He graduated from the Bauhaus in 1932, went with the politically forced move to Berlin and stayed after theTransfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933 for another year as a private student with Mies in Germany.

After his return to the USA he worked as an architect and designer for Wallace K. Harrison and J. André Fouilhoux , then for Raymond Loewy and Antonin Raymond , and became a member of the American Institute of Architects . In 1941 he was appointed lecturer in architecture at Black Mountain College on Mies' recommendation . In 1941/42 he was assistant to A. Lawrence Kocher , with whom he published The Architectural Center: An Organization to Coordinate Building Research, Planning, Design, and Construction in 1943 . Further lectureships took him to Lawrence College and the Cranbrook Academy of Art . From 1946 to 1957 a longer lectureship at the College of William & Mary followed , and from 1957 he was hired by Mies as an Associate Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology .

From 1946 Dearstyne worked with Kocher in Colonial Williamsburg , where as an architectural historian they made an inventory of fifty buildings in the colonial style and published individual reports. He translated a book by Kasimir Malewitsch into English and with Hilla Rebay Kandinsky's Point and Line to Surface . His life's work, a book about the Bauhaus, was only published posthumously in 1986.

Dearstyne exhibited his own photos; he was a Guggenheim Fellow , was involved in the American Society of Architectural Historians and was co-editor of Inland Architect magazine .

Fonts (selection)

  • Inside the Bauhaus . Editor David Spaeth. New York: Rizzoli 1986
  • Wassily Kandinsky: Point and line to plane . Translation by Howard Dearstyne and Hilla Rebay . New York: Dover Publications 1979
  • Kasimir Malevich: The Non-Objective World . Translation into English by Howard Dearstyne, from the German translation by A. von Riesen (Bauhaus books, 11, 1927). Chicago: Paul Theobald and Company 1959
  • Shadows in Silver: A Record of Virginia, 1850-1900 . New York: Charles Scribner, 1954
  • Colonial Williamsburg, Its Buildings and Gardens . Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1949

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Howard Dearstyne , at Black Mountain College Project
personal data
SURNAME Dearstyne, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect and architectural historian trained at the Bauhaus
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1979
Place of death Alexandria