The early 1930s, Alfred bar at the request of, Hitchcock is Philip Johnson (and Lewis Mumford together) , the United States of the exhibition showcasing the new "Lee centers National style" architecture of Europe to the audience, "Modern Architecture I participated in ": International Exhibition". Hitchcock and Johnson co-author, International Style: Architecture Since 1922, was published at the same time as the MoMA exhibit.

Four years later, Hitchcock's book, HH Richardson and Architecture in His Time (1936), draws the career of American architect Henry Hobson Richardson out of ambiguity, while modernizing Europe. He claimed that the distant roots of the principle were actually found in the United States. Hitchcock's material properties (1942) continued to emphasize the American roots of modern architecture by focusing on Frank Lloyd Wright's career.

In 1948, Hitchcock published an essay in the book / exhibition catalog "Paintings for Architecture: Mirror Company Collection of Abstract Art ( Meriden, CT)". The preamble was written by Alfred Barr, the main organizer of the exhibition, and Miller's art director was art collector Emily Hall Tremaine . The exhibition began at Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and was exhibited at multiple venues in the United States (1947-1952). At that time, Hitchcock was teaching at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. After arriving at Smith College, he arranged a second viewing with a different selection of works.  [1] [2] [3] [4]

Hitchcock taught at many colleges, but primarily Smith College (also director of the Smith College Museum of Art from 1949 to 1955). He moved to New York City in 1968 and later taught at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. He also taught at Wesleyan University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Yale University , Harvard University, and Cambridge University.  [5] [6]

He was also a founding member of the Victorian Society of England and the early president of the Victorian Society of America. One of the association's main awards is the Henry Russell Hitchcock Award. The " Alice Davis Hitchcock Award " was awarded by both the Association of Architectural Historians and the British Association of Architectural Historians (SAHGB) [7] and is named after Hitchcock's mother.

Hitchcock was gay and was one of several gay men in the arts and humanities coming out of Harvard University.  [8]

Hitchcock focused primarily on the formal aspects of design, and he regarded individual architects as a major determinant of architectural history. Hitchcock's work tended to diminish the role of broader social forces. He is sometimes criticized for this "great man" or "genealogical" approach.

During Hitchcock's career, he produced more than a dozen books on architecture. His Architecture: The 19th and 20th centuries (1958) was a thorough study of architecture over 150 years, widely used as a textbook for architectural history courses from the 1960s to the 1980s, and is still a useful reference today. is.

Hitchcock died of cancer at the age of 83.