Architect and educator. He attended Harvard from 1906 to 1909 but never completed his degree there, instead receiving a degree in architecture for the University of Michigan in 1912. He served as dean of the School of Architecture at Columbia University from 1935 to 1936 and was instrumental in directing the school away from the traditional Beaux-Arts curriculum towards modern ideas about design education. Hudnut moved from Columbia to Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he strove to remove the disciplinary boundaries between the architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning departments. He was responsible for bringing Gropius and Breuer to teach at the GSD.