If we hope to make America great again, we should start by returning to architecture that reflects the good, true, and ...

As a school, the Bauhaus lasted just 14 years from beginning to end. It opened in 1919 when Walter Gropius was finally able to accept an invitation to merge the art schools of Weimar and to be the ...

“Gropius,” a new biography by Fiona MacCarthy, aims to rehabilitate one of modernism’s most influential but underappreciated architects.

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. Teachers ...

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 ...

On View The Transformation of the Historic Gropius Bau Embodies Everything That’s Wonderful About Berlin The museum's director Stephanie Rosenthal has big plans for the institution, including a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Gropius had made his name working with the Berlin architect Peter Behrens and then as a member of the Deutscher Werkbund, an association of artists, designers and industrialists, from 1910.