Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 in Weimar, but after the school lost the confidence of the local state government, it moved into its iconic modernist buildings in Dessau, only to be chased away ...
The newly renovated Gropius House. Image courtesy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Image © Christoph Rokitta Embassy of the United States in Athens, Greece ...
The General Services Administration (GSA) has been ordered to sell off properties it owns and/or leases. The order left many federal employees bewildered, given the Trump administration’s mandate that ...
Through a stroke of luck, Haus Otte from Walter Gropius narrowly escaped demolition. But when you stand in front of the bright plaster façade of this architectural wonder in Berlin’s Zehlendorf ...
Biographical material, correspondence with architects and artists (1903-1978), writings (1923-1969), a diary, an autograph book, subject files, printed material, photographs (1883-1979) and 5 ...
A bust of Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus-Universität (via flickr.com/libaer2002) Cambridge, MA — There’s something that makes Harkness Commons — also known as ...
Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus. By Fiona MacCarthy. Belknap Press; 560 pages; $35. Published in Britain as “Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus”; Faber & Faber; £30. “IF I HAVE a ...
“Gropius,” he would say by way of introducing himself, which often left the other person fumbling momentarily for the master builder’s first names. It should have come as easily as Frank Lloyd. But ...
“Now, for the first time, when I have reached 70, things look safe for a while,” said Architect Walter Gropius on his birthday last week. “At long last, I am beginning to build much more than was ...
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus, by Fiona MacCarthy (Faber & Faber, March 2019) Biographies of artists are an unwieldy yet wildly rewarding genre, with authors heroically flexing ...
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