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The Grand Dame: Montana Modernist Daphne Bugbee Jones

Montana Historical Society
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University of Montana Professor Dr. H. Rafael Chacón highlights the career and contributions of Daphne Bugbee Jones. Jones was a World War II naval officer, state legislator, and delegate to Montana’s Constitutional Convention, lobbyist and community organizer, environmentalist, and committed bon vivant. Less well known was the fact that she was also a pioneering modernist architect and the first postwar, female student to study at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius, the exiled founder of the German Bauhaus. The homes she designed in Missoula are revolutionary examples of modernist design, illustrate major international trends, and provide evidence of the difficulties professional women faced in the postwar period. ...more
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The Grand Dame: Montana Modernist Daphne Bugbee Jones
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2016Mar 16
University of Montana Professor Dr. H. Rafael Chacón highlights the career and contributions of Daphne Bugbee Jones. Jones was a World War II naval officer, state legislator, and delegate to Montana’s Constitutional Convention, lobbyist and community organizer, environmentalist, and committed bon vivant. Less well known was the fact that she was also a pioneering modernist architect and the first postwar, female student to study at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius, the exiled founder of the German Bauhaus. The homes she designed in Missoula are revolutionary examples of modernist design, illustrate major international trends, and provide evidence of the difficulties professional women faced in the postwar period.

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Montana Historical Society

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