Many of the Bauhaus faculty were architects and industrial designers, whose principles demanded that the types they used, like the buildings and machines they designed, be sharp and unornamented, symbolic of a machine-dominated society.
"What gets unleashed now is the energy to complete the academic planning among faculty, the architects' work on the design, and the engineers' work on implementation," said Robert Kasdin, senior executive vice president at Columbia.
During the summers of 1946 and '47, he taught the history of photography at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, an experimental school which included on its faculty other thinkers, architects, and artists such as Walter Gropius, Josef Albers, Anni Albers, and Jacob Lawrence.
Another longtime faculty member and noted architect, Eric Owen Moss, is the school's current director.
His maternal grandfather, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, was an early member of the University of Chicago faculty and a leading architect of the Reform branch of Judaism in America.
My mother worked in an art gallery so I've always been very much inspired by art and sculpture, and my husband is ex-[Southern California Institute of Architecture] faculty, trained as an architect and also a media artist, so we're passionate about trying to push the envelope in different ways".
Among noteworthy faculty members at Southern Illinois University were architect R. Buckminster Fuller at Carbondale and Edwardsville and dancer Katherine Dunham at Edwardsville.
Montpellier Sud de France University will build a brand-new, curved building for its faculty of medicine, desiged by French architect Jean-Michel Ferry. Jean-Michel Ferry
"He wasn't a person who drew," says Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, a former faculty colleague of Kappe's at Cal Poly Pomona.
The architectural project, which won the national architecture prize in 1972, was the work of several members of the faculty under the coordination of the architect Jamie Cruz.
