(b Big Rapids, MI, 27 March 1886; d Cambridge, MA, 15 Jan 1968). American teacher, writer and architect. He attended Harvard College from 1906 to 1909, before qualifying as an architect at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1912. He was head of the Department of Architecture at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, from 1912 to 1916 and practised as an architect in New York from 1919 to 1923, designing neo-Georgian churches, country homes and commercial buildings. Around this time he became interested in the work of the Modern Movement in Europe. Resuming his academic career, Hudnut directed the McIntire School of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, from 1923 to 1927 and was dean of the School of Architecture at Columbia University, New York, from 1934 to 1936. In the latter school he redesigned the traditional curriculum in favour of a modern system of design education. In 1936 Hudnut became dean of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, where he transformed the separate disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning into a collaborative programme, whose intention was to produce thoroughly trained professionals equipped to deal with the practical exigencies of modern times.