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 ...

Poor Walter Gropius, forever condemned to be the hate-figure of modern architecture. The hate appeared early in Evelyn Waugh’s 1928 novel Decline and Fall, where Gropius appears thinly disguised ...

Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 and was its first director. To mark the centenary of the influential school, we profile the German architect.

GROPIUS The Man Who Built the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy. Walter Gropius has always seemed like the grayest man of the Bauhaus. Mies van der Rohe had his whiskey-colored skyscraper and book ...

Gropius had tried hard to keep politics out of art, but the Nazis were increasingly hostile to the Bauhaus, branding its output degenerate. Starved of funds, it closed in 1933. Germany’s loss ...

Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 1919 as a school that blurred the lines between fine and applied art. It held that all the arts, including architecture, should play their ...

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 ...

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 was one of the 20th Century’s most influential and fascinating architects — founder of the innovative Bauhaus design school in Germany, chair of Harvard’s architecture ...

Berlin — Architect Walter Gropius and his band of communal craftsmen at the Bauhaus school put a radical stamp on architecture, design and art during Germany's Weimar Period between the World ...