Joseph F. Hudnut (March 27, 1886 – January 16, 1968)[1] was an American architect scholar and professor who was the first dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
He was responsible for bringing the German modernist architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer to the Harvard faculty.
He taught at Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1912 to 1916, leaving to study at Columbia University, where he received a master of science in 1917.
Ralph Adams Cram wrote of Hudnut's essay "Architecture Discovers the Present" (1938) that it was "full of fine and high ideas, admirably expressed.
Joseph Hudnut, Dead; Columbia and Harvard Dean Hired Bauhaus Leaders; Obituary (“New York Times,” January 17, 1968).