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."Learning from Bletter" by Gabrielle Esperdy
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.Rosemarie Haag Bletter page at The New York Review of Books
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.Skyscraper Style: Art Deco New York 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.""Whitney Museum exhibition of 20th-century design highlights an array of modernist trends," Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 1985 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).Michael Blackwood Productions She also served on the advisory panel and as an essayist for the Denver Art Museum’s 2001-2004 traveling exhibition "US Design: 1975-2000."US design 1975-2000
Publications Books
Articles
References
External links Faculty page at The Graduate Center, CUNY A symposium on modern & contemporary architecture in honor of Rosemarie Haag Bletter