Walter Gropius moved to the United States when he became Professor of Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1937. He built a family home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, a ...

Walter Gropius founded the German design school a century ago, but his work, now antique, still feels ahead of its time.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alexandra Lange GROPIUS The Man Who Built the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy Walter Gropius has ...

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, founder of the German design school known as the Bauhaus, carefully sited the house to complement its New England habitat on a rise within an orchard of 90 apple trees.

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 ...

NC: Your protagonist is a spoiled rich kid who is constantly mistaken for the famous Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius. What inspired that sort of unexpected character?

Walter Gropius’s lofty rhetoric about equality fell short of the essentialist differences that the art school’s founders perceived between the sexes (and imposed on women at the school).

A new biography traces the many lives and influences of architect Walter Gropius. Toward a new Bauhaus: How a century-old design movement could help save the planet The Bauhaus, a wildly ...

The school suffered, too. 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 ...