Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School.Bauhaus , The Tate Collection, retrieved 18 May 2008 Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright are usually called the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also an important architect of the International Style.

Legacy
Gropius is popular from both his buildings and the district of Gropiusstadt in Berlin. In 1959, he was given the AIA Gold Medal. In the early 1990s, multiple books called The Walter Gropius Archive were published. These books talked about his entire career.  On May 17, 2008, Google Doodle celebrated Walter Gropius' 125th birthday. In 1996, Gropius' Bauhaus Building and the Master Houses were made UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Popular buildings
 1906 granary in Jankowo, Western Pomerania, Poland
 1910–1911 the Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany
 1914 Office and Factory Buildings at the Werkbund Exhibition, 1914, Cologne, Germany
 1921 Sommerfeld House, Berlin, Germany designed for Adolf Sommerfeld
 1922 competition entry for the Chicago Tribune Tower competition
 1925–1932 Bauhaus School and Meisterhäuser (houses for senior staff), Dessau, Germany
 1926–1928 Törten housing estate in Dessau.
 1927-1929 Dessau Employment Office (Arbeitsamt).
 1936 Village College, Impington, Cambridgeshire, England
 1936 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea, London, England
 1937 The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
 1939 Waldenmark, Wrightstown Township, Pennsylvania (with Marcel Breuer)
 1939–1940 The Alan I W Frank House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (with Marcel Breuer)
 1942–1944 Aluminum City Terrace housing project, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA
 1945–1959 Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA – Master planned  site and led the design for at least 8 of the approx. 28 buildings.
 1949–1950 Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (The Architects' Collaborative)Harvard Graduate Center – Walter Gropius – Great Buildings Online. greatbuildings.com
 1957–1960 University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
 1963–1966 John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 1948 Peter Thacher Junior High School,
 1957–1959 Dr. and Mrs. Carl Murchison House, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA (The Architects' Collaborative)
 1958–1963 Pan Am Building (now the Metlife Building), New York, with Pietro Belluschi and project architects Emery Roth & Sons
 1957 Interbau Apartment blocks, Hansaviertel (Walter-Gropius-Haus) Berlin, Germany, with The Architects' Collaborative and Wils Ebert
 1960 Temple Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, Maryland)
 1960 the Gropiusstadt building complex, Berlin, Germany
 1961 The award-winning Wayland High School, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA (demolished 2012)
 1959–1961 Embassy of the United States, Athens, Greece (The Architects' Collaborative and consulting architect Pericles A. Sakellarios)
 1968 Glass Cathedral, Thomas Glassworks, Amberg
 1967–1969 Tower East, Shaker Heights, Ohio, was Gropius's last major project.
 1968–1970 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, USA. Original building expanded with Gropius addition with little alteration to the original structure. Only American art museum to be brought to completion using a Gropius design.
 1973–1980 Porto Carras, at Chalkidiki, Greece, was built posthumously from Gropius designs, it is one of the largest holiday resorts in Europe.
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Further reading

 The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, 1935.
 The Scope of Total Architecture, Walter Gropius, 1956.
 From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe, 1981.
 The Walter Gropius Archive, Routledge (publisher), 1990–1991.

Other websites

 Designer portrait on rosenthalusa.com
 More information on Gropius's early years at the Bauhaus can be found in his correspondence with Lily Hildebrandt, with whom he had an affair between 1919 and 1922: Hans and Lily Hildebrandt papers, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. CA.
 Bauhaus Reviewed 1919–33 audiobook liner notes at LTM


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