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The New School’s 66 West 12th Street building was completed in December 1930 and opened to the public in January the following year. The building was designed by the renowned Bauhaus architect Joseph Urban.
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In 1966, famed-artist Astrith Deyrup, also a New School faculty member and the youngest of seven children born to the New School’s first president Alvin Johnson, presented her famous textile designs in an exhibition at The New School. The collection included scarves made using the batik method where cloth is brushed or drawn on with hot wax and then dyed.
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In 1967 Dr. Rene Dubos, Pulitzer Prize winning environmentalist, began his month long lecture series at The New School. The series, titled Environmental Threats: Esthetic Afflictions or Biological Collapse, focused on conservation of the environment and was co-sponsored by the Scientists’ Institute for Public Information.
Information for this article was gathered using The New School Bulletins courtesy of Carmen Hendershott.
Francia is currently a Culture & Media major student about to graduate. She hopes to write for a cheesy sitcom or television series one day. Her hobbies include binge watching shows on Netflix and drinking wine.
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