Rosemarie Haag Bletter
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| Born | Rosemarie Haag February 27, 1939 Heilbronn, Germany |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Architectural historian |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Bletter (1964-1976) Martin Filler (m.1978-present) |
Rosemarie Haag Bletter is a German-born American architectural historian, university professor, writer, and lecturer.
Education
Bletter was educated at Columbia University, where she received her BS, MA, and PhD. She completed a master’s thesis on the Catalan Modernista architect Josep Vilaseca and a doctoral dissertation on the work of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart.[1]
Academic career
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]
Curatorial
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, among others, she was a guest curator of the 1985 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design."[4] Bletter and Filler wrote and conducted the interviews for three documentary films produced by Michael Blackwood Productions: Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture (1983), Arata Isozaki: Early Work in Japan (1985), and Stirling (1987).[5] She also served on the advisory panel and as an essayist for the Denver Art Museum’s 2003 traveling exhibition "US Design: 1975-2000."[6]
Publications
- Books
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- Articles
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References
- ↑ "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
- ↑ Michael Blackwood Productions
- ↑ US design 1975-2000
