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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, [1] who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
May 14, 2024 · Walter Gropius (born May 18, 1883, Berlin, Ger.—died July 5, 1969, Boston, Mass., U.S.) was a German American architect and educator who, particularly as director of the Bauhaus (1919–28), exerted a major influence on the development of modern architecture.
Walter Gropius. German Architect. Born: May 18, 1883 - Berlin, Germany. Died: July 5, 1969 - Massachusetts, USA. Movements and Styles: Bauhaus. , The International Style. "We cannot go on indefinitely reviving revivals...Neither medievalism nor colonialism can express the life of the 20th-century man.
Jan 23, 2024 · Walter Gropius was a seminal figure in modernist architecture and the founder of the influential Bauhaus School of Art and Design. Born in 1883 in Berlin into a family with architectural ties, Gropius studied architecture in Munich and Berlin. He gained early professional experience under Peter Behrens, an industrial design pioneer.
Apr 22, 2019 · Photograph by Jason Fulford for The New Yorker. The future-facing idiom of the Bauhaus, the German design school founded, in 1919, by Walter Gropius, is now antique, but its distinct vision of...
Nov 2, 2018 · Walter Gropius: the ideas man who founded the Bauhaus school. Jon Astbury | 2 November 2018 Leave a comment. German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. As we continue our...
1. He was called the 'Silver Prince' No wonder that some people thought he was a prince: Walter Gropius was elegant and sophisticated, always smartly dressed and well-groomed – and he cut a...
