Elizabeth Bauer Mock

Elizabeth (Bauer) Mock (later Kassler) (1911 – February 8, 1998) was director of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and a university professor. She was a charter apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, and the first former Taliesin fellow to join the MoMA staff. After their marriage, they briefly lived in Switzerland. A year later she co-circulated her first exhibition, “What is Modern Architecture?”.

In 1946 and 1947, she and Rudolph lived in Knoxville, TN designing pre-fab housing for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Some of the buildings were in Fontana Village.

In 1948, she separated from Rudolph and moved to Taliesin West with her son Fritz for one season. After her divorce, she married Kenneth Stone Kassler in 1951 and moved to Princeton, New Jersey. Modern Gardens and the Landscape is considered the authoritative survey of its subject. Modern Gardens and the Landscape included the works of Burle Marx, Bernard Rudofsky, Gunnar Asplund and Luis Barragan. Her books were all published by the Museum of Modern Art.

A 1979 visit to Taliesin West inspired her to put together a retrospective directory of the Taliesin Fellowship in time for its 50th anniversary (in 1982). She collected all the listings herself, and in 1981 published 450 copies of The Directory, 1932–1982, The Taliesin Fellowship, A Directory of Members. This was the first such directory in Taliesin history and it inspired the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to develop similar directories.

In 1990 she retired to a retirement community in Lexington, Massachusetts. Look at Your Neighborhood, Mar 29–Jun 25, 1944, with Rudolf Mock and Clarence Stein America Builds, 1944, with G. Holmes Perkins Built in U.S.A., 1944 Exhibition catalog Built in USA: 1932-1944 Edited by Elizabeth Mock, 1944 Building with Wood, Nov 15, 1944–Feb 18, 1945 Integrated Building: Kitchens, Bathrooms, Storage, with Suzanne Wasson Tucker and Greta Daniel, Feb 21–May 13, 1945 A New Country House by Frank Lloyd Wright, Jun 18–Sep 3, 1946