Walter Gropius
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Walter Gropius was a German-American architect and designer who founded the Bauhaus school in 1919, one of the most influential modern design movements in history. His ideas about combining art, craft, and technology revolutionized how architects and designers think about creating functional, beautiful buildings and objects for everyday use.
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- Born
- 18 May 1883
- Died
- 5 Jul 1969
- Works
- 83
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- 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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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.
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