Director’s Preface

~~Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and Photography, 1907–1922 examines the early years of one of the greatest architect-designers of the twentieth century. In the United States, where Le Corbusier received only one major commission—The Carpenter Center at Harvard...

~Few figures in the history of decorative arts can compare with Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and his prodigious output as a designer, architect, and theorist. He was singlehandedly responsible for the early nineteenth-century interpretation of medieval art and architectecture that blossomed into the Gothic Revival. His work in this idiom consumed his entire life...

THE BARD GRADUATE CENTER is honored to present Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference. This groundbreaking project considers—and celebrates—the multifaceted and largely underrecognized contributions of women designers to American culture in the twentieth century. Encompassing a broad definition of design that extends from industrial design...