Walter Gropius
German-American architect (1883-1969) · Germany · Architects · Died at 86
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Something wrong?He founded the Bauhaus and spent the rest of his career living in its shadow - or its light, depending on how you see it. The school lasted fourteen years; the aesthetic it codified has outlasted nearly everything else built in the twentieth century.
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Der Architekt Walter Gropius, Begründer des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar, um 1919In their own words 5
, The ultimate goal of all visual artistic activity is construction!
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word.
The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.
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Born in Berlin in 1883, Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar after the First World War and taught there for years, becoming the face of the International Style - steel, glass, flat roofs, no ornament. When Germany turned, he left: England in 1934, then the United States in 1937. He landed at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and stayed, shaping a generation of architects while working on projects with Marcel Breuer and co-founding The Architects Collaborative. In 1959 he won the AIA Gold Medal. He died in 1969, by which point modernism had become the default and the Bauhaus a chapter in every textbook.
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