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, Spain, circa 1907.[Photo: Originally published in Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus, Reginald Isaacs, Bullfinch Press, 1991/courtesy Phaidon] ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

In Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus, author Fiona MacCarthy attempts to debunk the myth that the German pioneer of modernist architecture is somehow an unsexy subject for ...