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May 16, 2016 · PREVIEW. SUBSCRIBE. Listing of the Day Location:Provincetown, MassachusettsPrice:$3.399 million This starkly modern and dramatic home was built in 2013 as a guesthouse to an adjacent flat-roofed,...
- Elaine Louie
Aug 8, 2014 · In 1936, Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius — who had just accepted a teaching position at Harvard’s new Graduate School of Design — rented a summer house on Planting Island in Marion, Massachusetts, near the base of Cape Cod, with his wife, Ise.
Nov 1, 2016 · Combining traditional elements of New England architecture, including wood, brick, and fieldstone, with innovative materials such as glass block, acoustical plaster, and chrome banisters, the Gropius House was one of the most shockingly modern and progressive homes ever created in the United States.
- Brittany Good
It was the family residence of Modernist architect Walter Gropius, his wife Ise Gropius (née Frank), and their daughter Ati Gropius. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000 for its association with Walter Gropius, as he was an influential teacher and leader of Modernist architecture.
Cape Cod has long attracted artists, and the legacy of one art colony that flourished in the middle of the last century is an inventory of architecturally revolutionary houses tucked into the landscapes of the Outer Cape. Walter Gropius, who founded the legendary Bauhaus design school in Germany, moved to the United States in 1937 to teach at ...
Aug 13, 2018 · These American designers became friends with a group of European designers who were emigrating to America during the run-up to World War Two – people like Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and...
Oct 15, 2018 · Walter Gropius isn’t your typical beach bum. The founder of the Bauhaus, the 20th century’s most influential art and design school, is more closely associated with clean lines and northern European order, rather than swimming trunks and flip flops.
