November 19, 2004

Researchers at 3 Universities Join to Produce Web Site on Modernist Architect

By BROCK READ

William Muschenheim, an Austrian-born architect, helped define the American Modernist aesthetic in a series of influential New York City commissions.

But his is not exactly a household name, even among students of architectural history.

Kent Kleinman, chairman of architecture at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has made it his mission to change that. Along with librarians at Columbia University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mr. Kleinman has assembled