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Rosemarie Haag Bletter | |
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| Born | Rosemarie Haag February 27, 1939 Heilbronn, Germany |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Architectural historian |
| Spouse | Martin Filler |
Rosemarie Haag Bletter is a German-American architectural historian, university professor, writer, and lecturer.
Education
[edit]Bletter was educated at Columbia University, where she received her BS, MA, and PhD. She completed a master’s thesis on the Catalan Mondernista architect Josep Vilaseca and a doctoral dissertation on the work of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart.[1]
Academic career
[edit]Bletter has taught at Yale, Columbia, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and CUNY Graduate Center. She supervised twenty-five doctoral dissertations, among them those of the scholars Barry Bergdoll, Larry Busbea, and Gabrielle Esperdy. An expert on twentieth-century European and American architecture, she was instrumental in the favorable reappraisal of Art Deco building design during the 1970s, is particularly known for her seminal writings on German Expressionist and Early Modernist architecture, as well as for her cultural analysis of the architecture of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and as an early exponent in academia of Frank Gehry's work.[2]
Curation
[edit]Bletter was an organizer of the 1975 Brooklyn Museum exhibition "Skyscraper Style" (co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York). It was based on her book of the same name (with the photographer Cervin Robinson), one of the first serious studies to validate American Art Deco commercial architecture.[3] With Martin Filler, she was a guest curator of the 1985 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design."[4] She also served on the advisory panel and as an essayist for the Denver Art Museum’s 2003 traveling exhibition "US Design: 1975-2000."[5]
Publications
[edit]- Books
- Haag Bletter, Rosemarie; Robinson, Cervin (1975). Skyscraper Style: Art Deco New York. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195018738.
- Kardon, Janet (1995). Haag Bletter, Rosemarie (ed.). Craft in the Machine Age 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft. New York: Harry N Abrams. ISBN 978-0810919686.
{{cite book}}: Missing|author1=(help) - Haag Bletter, Rosemarie, ed. (1996). Adolf Behne: The Modern Functional Building. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities. ISBN 9780892363643.
- Articles
- Haag Bletter, Rosemarie (1985). "Frank Gehry's Spatial Reconstructions". The Architecture of Frank Gehry. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center.
- Haag Bletter, Rosemarie (1985). "The World of Tomorrow: The Future with a Past". High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design. New York: Whitney Museum of Art.
- Haag Bletter, Rosemarie (2001). Bergdoll, Barry; Terence, Riley (eds.). "Transformations of the American Vernacular". Mies in Berlin. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
References
[edit]- ^ "Learning from Bletter" by Gabrielle Esperdy
- ^ Rosemarie Haag Bletter page at The New York Review of Books
- ^ Skyscraper Style: Art Deco New York
- ^ "Whitney Museum exhibition of 20th-century design highlights an array of modernist trends," Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 1985
- ^ US design 1975-2000