ALEXANDER JUSSERAND KOSTELLOW (8 janv. 1896 – 2 janv. 1954)

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Regarded by many as the "father" of industrial design education. He studied in Paris and the University of Berlin and painting at the National Academy, the Art Student's League and the Kansas City Art Institute. He teach at Carnegie Institute of Technology, and in 1934 Alexander helped Donald Dohner initiate the first degreed ID program at CIT and was by then teaching design. In 1938, Kostellow was listed as an "Instructor in Industrial Design." In 1939 he was invited by Dean Boudreau to initiate a curriculum of "Design and Structure", a now-called "foundation" program, using abstract elements, that he felt emulated the Bauhaus, and which, many say, was the "heart and soul" of the program. In 1940 he was named "Supervisor of Design and Structure."