ABSTRACT
This chapter, by Reto Geiser, focuses broadly on the role of architectural and urban history and theory in architecture education and more specifically on the pedagogical ideas of the historian Sigfried Giedion between the late 1930s and late 1950s. The essay examines how Giedion negotiated the anti-historical bias of early Modernism, and the different approaches at Harvard University, influenced by Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and later Josep Lluís Sert, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as shaped by John Burchard and Lawrence B. Anderson. The essay presents a foundation for the re-appearance of architectural and urban history in architecture pedagogy in the Post-Modern period of the later twentieth century.
