When German architect Walter Gropius came to the United States, he carried in his suitcase the blueprints for a revolution in design. The year was 1937. Behind him was more than two decades as head… ...

In April 1919, the architect Walter Gropius founded one of the most influential art and design schools ever: the Bauhaus. Students learned to focus on simplicity and functionality.

Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 and was its first director. ... Gropius' design of the Bauhaus School in Dessau was billed as a new ... Bauhaus chairs by Erich Dieckmann for TYP.

Walter Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy Harvard University Press List Price: $35.00. Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America ...

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Walter Gropius in 1927 Credit: Getty Images She wants us to see him as impassioned and generous, with a wide humane culture and a proper respect for local traditions in design.

Well timed for the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first biography of Walter Gropius (1883–1969) since Reginald Isaacs’s Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus was translated ...

As a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, I was always aware of the legacy of Walter Gropius (1883–1969), who was chair of the university’s Graduate School of Design in ...

Walter Gropius took the helm at Harvard’s Department of Architecture. The 100 th anniversary of the school’s founding marks an opportunity to reflect on the origins of the modernist tradition and the ...

German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. As we continue our Bauhaus 100 series exploring the school's centenary, we profile the man who had a vision to make art accessible to ...