Dean Joseph Hudnut created the Graduate School of Design in 1936 by merging the formerly independent schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and City Planning. That same year, Hudnut hired Walter Gropius to head the department of Architecture, marking a definite turn away from Beaux-Arts traditions toward modernism. Gropius invited Breuer to teach at the school, which he did for a decade between 1937 and 1947.