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Gropius, Walter Adolf

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Gropius, Walter Adolf (1883–1969)

German architect, in the USA from 1937. He was an early exponent of the international style, defined by glass curtain walls, cubic blocks, and unsupported corners. A founder director of the Bauhaus school in Weimar 1919–28, he advocated teamwork in design and artistic standards in industrial production. He was responsible for the new Bauhaus premises in Dessau 1925–26.

The model factory and office building at the 1914 Cologne Werkbund exhibition, designed with Adolph Meyer, was an early example of the international style.

From 1937 he was professor of architecture at Harvard. In 1946 he founded the Architects Collaborative, a product of which was the Harvard Graduate Center 1949–50.

Born in Berlin, the son of an architect, he trained in Munich and under Peter Behrens in Berlin. He practised privately in Berlin 1910–14 and 1928–34. In 1919 he was appointed director of the Bauhaus at Weimar in succession to Henry Van de Velde (1863–1957). From 1934 to 1936 he worked in London in collaboration with Maxwell Fry. After his appointment at Harvard in 1937, he continued his private practice in partnership with Marcel Breuer.

His principal buildings include: (in Germany) pavilions at the Cologne Exhibition, 1914; a factory at Alfeld, 1914; a theatre at Jena, 1922; housing and flats on a large scale at Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Berlin; (in England) Impington Village College (with Maxwell Fry), 1936; (in America) housing at Aluminium City, 1943; and the US Embassy, Athens, 1961. His books and his buildings have had great influence on recent architecture everywhere.



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