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Henry-Russell Hitchcock
1903–1987
A leading interpreter of modern architecture, he helped shape how 20th-century readers understood the International Style and the history of building in America and Europe.
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Architecture : nineteenth and twentieth centuries
by Henry-Russell Hitchcock
About the author
Henry-Russell Hitchcock was an American architectural historian, born in Boston on June 3, 1903, and educated at Harvard University. He became one of the most influential writers on modern architecture, and his teaching career included long stretches at Smith College and New York University.
He is especially remembered for his collaboration with Philip Johnson on the Museum of Modern Art's 1932 exhibition on modern architecture and the book The International Style: Architecture Since 1922, which helped give that movement its lasting name. Over the years he also wrote important studies of figures such as Frank Lloyd Wright and of architecture in the United States and Latin America.
His work combined scholarship with a clear, persuasive way of explaining buildings, which made him an important bridge between academic art history and a wider public. Hitchcock died in New York on February 19, 1987, leaving behind a body of writing that still shapes the study of architectural history.