Henry-Russell Hitchcock

Henry - Russell Hitchcock ( born June 3, 1903 in Boston, † 19 February 1987 in New York City ) was American architectural historian, museum director, as well as architecture critic and theorist.

Hitchcock studied art history at Harvard University, where he was involved in the drafting of the avant-garde magazine Hound & Horn. Along with his fellow, among others, the art historian and architect Philip Johnson and later with the musicologist Virgil Thomson, he has contributed significantly to the spread of modern art in the United States. In 1924, he earned a Bachelor's degree in 1927 and the master.

Became famous Henry Russell Hitchcock, together with Philip Johnson, thanks to the formation of the name The International Style. It was a title of the exhibition, which was organized by the two at the MoMA in 1932 after their joint trip to Europe ( 1930). Later, Hitchcock taught at New York University and the Smith College where he was also director of the 1947-1955 Smith College Museum of Art.

Hitchcock's view of modern architecture has essentially distinguished it from other contemporaries. The major cause of the development of modernity he did not in the social currents, but in the activities of individual genius individuals.

Works

• The International Style. Architecture since 1922 1932 ( with Philip C. Johnson)
• The Architecture of HH Richardson and His Times. 1936
• In the Nature of Materials. 1942
• Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 1958
• Modern Architecture: Romanticism and Reintegration. 1972
• HPP buildings and designs 1973