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Design of desk, armchair, sofa and ceiling lamp by Walter Gropius. Carpet by Benita Koch-Otte. Bethel by friendly permission of V. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel©.
Walter Gropius founded the German design school a century ago, but his work, now antique, still feels ahead of its time.
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 ...
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 also contributed with published writings, discussing the Bauhaus Manifesto, the role of the artist, and the artist's relationship to his or her work.
Barry Bergdoll reviews a biography of Walter Gropius that aims to counter his legacy as a cold modernist, and a Bauhaus study that examines the existing ecosystem that allowed its growth.
Undergraduate architecture students should not undertake extensive experimental work, Walter Gropius, chairman of the Department of Architecture, warned last night at a forum on architectural ...
In collaboration with Gropius, he was immediately put to work on a design for a German ambassador residency in the Argentine capital.
Hindsight Walter Gropius’s lost architectural dream for Iraq He founded the Bauhaus and an influential Cambridge firm. But his greatest unfinished project would have reshaped Baghdad.
A children’s book illustrator and teacher, Ati Gropius Johansen, 88, of Wellfleet, who died Sept. 7, was a daughter of Walter Gropius, the architect who founded the Bauhaus design school in ...
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.