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Walter Gropius

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Also known as Walter Adolph Georg Gropius, Walter Adolf Gropius, Mass, Walter Adolf Georg Gropius, Georg Walter Adolf Gropius, Walter Adolph Gropius

German-American architect (1883–1969)

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Walter Gropius was a German architect, pedagogue, urban planner, and designer. Born in Berlin in 1883, he worked in the Bauhaus and International Style movements. His professional affiliations included the Deutscher Werkbund, the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as an educator at the Bauhaus, Harvard University, and Black Mountain College.

Gropius received the Royal Gold Medal, the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt, and the Albert Medal. He participated in World War I, World War II, and the 1932 Summer Olympics. His spouse was Alma Mahler, and later Ise Gropius. They had a child named Manon Gropius. He died in Boston in 1969.

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Person · Open Library

Born
18 May 1883
Died
5 Jul 1969
Works
83

Top works

  • Walter Gropius: architect, creator, educator
  • Gedenkschrift, zur Verleihung des Hansischen Goethe-Preises 1956
  • The new city pattern
  • Verleihung des Goethepreises der Stadt Frankfurt an Professor Dr. h. c. Walter Gropius am 28. August 1961 in der Paulskirche; Reden
  • Housing problem

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Listeners · Last.fm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

    · 1983 · cited 31,494x

  2. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,776x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,955x

  4. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    · 2011 · cited 13,448x

  5. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

    · 1943 · cited 13,217x

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Quotes

  • “Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.”
  • “The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius ( German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈadɔlf ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈɡʁoːpiʊs]; 18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar and taught there for several years, becoming known as a leading proponent of the International Style. Gropius emigrated from Germany to England in 1934 and from England to the United States in 1937, where he spent much of the rest of his life teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In the United States he worked on several projects with Marcel Breuer and with the firm The Architects Collaborative, of which he was a founding partner. In 1959, he won the AIA Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture.

Early life and family

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