STRUGGLE FOR MODERNISM, THE

Alofsin (architecture, U. of Texas, Austin) has written a detailed history of the people and development of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (where he was a student in the 1970s). The foundation of the school by combining schools of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning; the presence and influence at the school of well-known modernists such as Walter Gropius; the development of modernist theories of design and their implementation; and the intellectual and administrative trajectories of the school's leaders and principle thinkers are some of the subjects. The book is well illustrated with high quality plates.