Henry-Russell Hitchcock

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academic architectural historian architecture critic author human

Henry-Russell Hitchcock was an influential American architectural historian and critic known for helping define and popularize modernist architecture in the 20th century.

Aliases (1)

Vincent Scully ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → architectural historian → architecture critic → author → human →
coAuthor	Philip Johnson →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
curated	Modern Architecture: International Exhibition →
curatedAt	Museum of Modern Art, New York →
dateOfBirth	1903-06-03 →
dateOfDeath	1987-02-19 →
educatedAt	Harvard University →
employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology → New York University → Smith College →
fieldOfWork	architectural criticism → architectural history → modern architecture →
genre	architectural monograph → non-fiction →
hasOccupation	critic → historian → professor →
influenced	architectural historiography of modernism → public perception of the International Style →
knownFor	helping define the International Style of modern architecture → popularizing modernist architecture in the 20th century →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	modern architecture →
notableWork	Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries → Early Victorian Architecture in Britain → In the Nature of Materials, 1887–1941: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright → Modern Architecture: Romanticism and Reintegration → The International Style →
placeOfBirth	Boston → Massachusetts → United States of America →
placeOfDeath	New York → New York City → United States of America →
positionHeld	professor of architectural history →
sexOrGender	male →
studied	19th-century architecture → Frank Lloyd Wright → Victorian architecture →
workLocation	New York City → Northampton, Massachusetts →
wroteAbout	American modernist architects → European modernist architects →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
International Style →	associatedWith
Yale School of Architecture ("Vincent Scully") →	hasNotableFaculty