Catherine Bauer Wurster
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| Born |
May 11, 1905 Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | November 21, 1964 (aged 59) Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | William Wurster |
| Children | One daughter |
Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster (May 11, 1905 – November 21, 1964) was a prominent American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners. A leading member of the "housers," a group of planners who advocated affordable housing for low-income families, she dramatically changed social housing practice and law in the United States. Wurster's influential book Modern Housing was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1934 and is regarded as a classic in the field.
On May 11, 1905, Catherine Krouse Bauer was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Alberta Krouse Bauer, a self-educated homemaker, and Jacob Bauer. Her father, a state highway engineer, was an early advocate of superhighways and implemented the first cloverleaf interchanges in America while serving as New Jersey's Chief Highway Engineer. Bauer's younger sister was Elizabeth Bauer Mock, a curator and Director of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and her brother was Jacob Louis Bauer, Jr., an engineer.
Bauer completed her secondary education at the Vail-Deane School in her hometown. She first attended Vassar College, spent one year as an architecture student at Cornell University, then transferred back to Vassar College from which she received her undergraduate degree in 1926.
In 1926-1927, Bauer spent time in Paris, where she befriended Fernand Léger, Man Ray, and Sylvia Beach. Inspired by the rational-comprehensive vision of city planning propounded by French architect Le Corbusier, Bauer published an article on his worker's apartments in suburban Paris.
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