Architect, curator, and writer. In 1931, he received a doctorate from the school of architecture in Vienna. He emigrated to the United States a decade later, where he taught at Black Mountain College and curated numerous exhibition for the Museum of Modern Art, including “Architecture without Architects” (1964). He also served as associate editor of New Pencil Points and editor and art director of Interiors magazine. He continued to teach and curate until his death in the late 1980s.