Dearstyne, Howard

Biographical Note

• 1903, Aug. 2: Born, Albany, N.Y.
• 1925: A.B., Columbia College, New York, N.Y.
• 1925 - 1928 : Studied at Columbia School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1928 - 1932 : Studied at Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
• 1932 - 1933 : Studied at Bauhaus, Berlin, Germany
• 1933 - 1934 : Studied privately under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• 1935 - 1939 : Designer, Wallace K. Harrison and J. A. Fouilhoux, architects, New York, N.Y.
• 1940 - 1941 : New York, N.Y. New York City Chelsea New York New Hope, Pa. New Hope Designer, Raymond Loewy, New York, N.Y., and Antonin Raymond, New Hope, Pa.
• 1941 - 1942 : Instructor in architecture and structural design, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C.
• 1943 - 1944 : Assistant professor and resident architect, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis.
• 1944: Married Barbara Louise Timmons
• 1944 - 1946 : Head, Department of Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
• 1946 - 1956 : Assistant architectural records editor, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va.
• 1946 - 1957 : Lecturer in architectural design, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
• 1954 - 1957 : Director, Society of Architectural Historians
• 1957 - 1971 : School of Architecture and Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Ill. Chicago Associate professor of architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.
• 1967 - 1968 : Associate editor, Inland Architect
• 1979, Mar. 7: Died, Alexandria, Va.
• 1986: Inside the Bauhaus, edited by David Spaeth (New York, N.Y.: Rizzoli, 1986. 288 pp.)

From the guide to the Howard Dearstyne Papers, 1911-1986, (bulk 1953-1971), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)