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Gropius, Walter
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Gropius, Walter (1883–1969). German-born architect, designer, and teacher who became an American citizen in 1944. In 1919 he founded the
Bauhaus, of which he was principal until 1928, when he resumed his architectural practice in Berlin. In 1934, after the Nazis had come to power, he left Germany for England, where he practised in partnership with the British architect Maxwell Fry. In 1937 he settled in the USA, where he taught at Harvard until 1951. He remained active until the end of his life and had an exceptional list of notable buildings to his credit. Although Gropius's practical work was in the field of architecture, his influence upon modernist trends in all the visual arts has probably not been exceeded by that of any other man. Nowhere else have so many major artists of outstanding originality been brought into collaboration as those whom Gropius gathered at the Bauhaus.
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FAST FOOD BEFORE KITCHEN BECAME A PLACE TO LINGER, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND WALTER GROPIUS DESIGNED EFFICIENT, LABOR-SAVING SPACES THAT WERE QUICK TO GET OUT OF
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; THE KITCHEN in the house that Walter Gropius designed for himself and his family...to linger. The kitchens in the Gropius and Zimmerman houses were designed...both, efficiency the goal. Both Gropius and Wright would have enjoyed the...
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Harvard hothouse.(Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...AMERICAN MODERNISM: JOSEPH HUDNUT, WALTER GROPIUS AND THE BAUHAUS LEGACY AT HARVARD...course. However bad an architect, Gropius was different: he was in charge...the Weimar then Dessau Bauhaus. Gropius also delivered the inaugural speech...
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DOCTORS SPOOF MEDICAL FIELD A BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR WALTER GROPIUS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/12/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...glass? German architect Walter Gropius responded to his daughter...roof deck is part of the Gropius House in Lincoln , the...more than in life." Walter Gropius Birthday Celebration...p.m. May 15 at the Gropius House, 68 Baker Bridge...
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Gropius House 50th anniversary. (Walter Gropius house in Lincoln, Massachusetts) (transcript)
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 1/1/1989; 700+ words
; ...much to be part of celebrating Walter Gropius and his family's coming to America...here for Sunday afternoon tea. Gropius made us feel really welcome-he...discredit and even insult was heaped on Gropius and what he stood for. There were...
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Battle to save Chicago's Gropius architecture has preservationists and city at odds.(Walter Gropius)(Arts & Culture)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 8/20/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...minds of modern architecture, Walter Gropius, lay behind many of these buildings...campus, including those linked to Gropius, to make room for the 2016 Olympics...There's no question that Walter Gropius was instrumental in the overall...
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A MODERN IDEAL WALTER GROPIUS MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THAT HIS FORM-FOLLOWS- FUNCTION PRINCIPLES WORK EVEN WITH ENGLISH COUNTRY FURNISHINGS.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/16/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...architects approached the legendary Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school...architecture. The group wanted Gropius, then head of the Harvard school...appropriate for the purpose at hand." Gropius, who had left his native Germany...
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Inventing American modernism; Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus legacy at Harvard.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2007; 499 words
; ...American modernism; Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus legacy at Harvard...focus on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, thereby missing a far more complex...Joseph Hudnut and his rivalry with Gropius. He argues that Hudnut, while...
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Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 8/9/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius By Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale, 2005...it in his introduction. Ranking Gropius and Meyer's Fagus Factory of...ultimate authority of'letter of W Gropius to the author'. They remind us...
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Landmarks panel hears Gropius plea
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 8/7/2009; ; 700+ words
; Walter Gropius, we in Chicago hardly knew you. And...preservationists and said some buildings on the Gropius-designed campus should be saved. The...application for particular Reese buildings. The Gropius in Chicago Coalition, which had assembled...
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Gropius gripe. (Letters: keep those cards, letters, and e-mails coming.).
Magazine article from: Residential Architect; 8/1/2002; ; 572 words
; ...should show that it was at least a Gropius/ Breuer project. Herbert Beckhard...my March "End Quote" piece on Walter Gropius' house, but none of my research...the house, says, "Breuer and Gropius were partners at the time, so...
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Gropius, Walter 1883-1969
Book article from: American Decades
GROPIUS, WALTER 1883-1969 Architect Founder of the Bauhaus Walter Gropius's philosophy, his functionalist designs...Harvard. Sources: Dorothy Adlow, "Walter Gropius: An Architect Who Has Blazed a Way...
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Walter Gropius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Walter Gropius The German-American architect, educator, and designer Walter Gropius...the common citizenship of all creative work." Further Reading Works on Gropius include Sigfried Giedion, Walter Gropius: Work and Te
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Gropius, Georg Walter Adolf
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Gropius, Georg Walter Adolf (1883–1969). German...Edfu, Egypt. Through van de Velde , Gropius was given the opportunity in 1915 to...the war from taking this up. In 1918 Gropius joined in the euphoria following the...
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Gropius, Walter
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Gropius, Walter (1883–1969). German-born...notable buildings to his credit. Although Gropius's practical work was in the field of...brought into collaboration as those whom Gropius gathered at the Bauhaus.
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Bauhaus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...school of art and design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 and closed by...The Bauhaus was created when Gropius was appointed head of two art schools...based nature of the school. Gropius brought together a remarkable collection...
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