Gropius may have agreed: He ensured that the Bauhaus trademark would survive the Weimar Republic by brokering a New Bauhaus in Chicago, run by one of his ex-Bauhaus colleagues, and by promoting the defunct original while head of the Harvard architecture department.

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Nader Ardalan, an architecture reserach fellow at Harvard University, says people in the oil-producing world want to be considered in a different light.

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Mr. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture with Structural Engineering from Cornell University in 1962 and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.

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