When Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg, who had agreed to teach at the 1948 summer session at Black Mountain, had to cancel at the last minute, he recommended Buckminster Fuller as a replacement. Despite Albers’s reservations about inviting an unknown person …

Lawrence Kocher’s contribution to architecture in the United States was both as a pioneering advocate for modern architecture and as an advocate for the preservation of architectural landmarks.

Kocher studied history at Stanford University (B.A., 1909). He also studied at …

Walter Gropius, educator, architect and founder of the Bauhaus, fled Germany for England where he worked with Maxwell Fry and the Isokon Group in London. In 1937, he accepted an invitation to teach architecture at the Graduate School of Design …

Ken Snelson grew up in Pendleton, Oregon where his father John Tavner Snelson had a camera shop. After his discharge from the navy, he enrolled at the University of Oregon in Eugene to study painting. He remembers Jack Wilkinson, the …