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  Walter Gropius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gropius married Alma Mahler (1879-1964), the widow of Gustav Mahler.
Gropius fled Germany in 1934 due to the rising power of the Nazi Party, and lived and worked in Britain, at the Isokon project, and then, from 1937 to the United States, where his own house, the Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, was influential in bringing International Modernism to the US.
Gropius died in 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 86.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Gropius   (995 words)

  
 The Home of Qdesign. (The Bauhaus)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gropius took this desire for machine-making, geometry and modular design, and applied its principles to Bauhaus teaching, in effect creating a laboratory to develop the existing Werkbund theories of design.
Gropius believed in the idea that there is a fundamental theme underlying all branches of design, and he wanted the students to achieve a knowledge of this overriding theme..
Gropius' words of 1919 don’t mention machinery which was to become central to the school’s activities, but the Bauhaus didn’t develop its theme of mechanised production and the problems of designing for it until 1923.
www.qdesign.co.nz /designhist_bauh.html   (3526 words)

  
 Alma Mahler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was the wife, successively, of one of the century's leading composers (Gustav Mahler), architects (Walter Gropius), and novelists (Franz Werfel).
Resenting this, Alma began an affair with the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius.
She divorced Gropius and married Werfel in 1929, but the child, Martin Carl Johannes, was born prematurely and died aged ten months.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alma_Mahler   (746 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Walter Gropius studiert 1903 Architektur in München und von 1905 bis 1907 in Berlin, wo er ab 1908 bis 1910 bei Peter Behrens arbeitet.
In 1903 Walter Gropius studied architecture in Munich and from 1905 to 1907 in Berlin, where he – from 1908 to 1910 – worked with Peter Behrens.
In 1931 the settlement Dammerstock in Karlsruhe is built according to a Gropius’ sketch.
www.exil-archiv.de /html/biografien/gropius.htm   (664 words)

  
 Gropius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A native of Berlin, Gropius was an architect and art educator who founded the Bauhaus in 1919.
Gropius left Nazi Germany secretly in 1934 and eventually joined the architecture faculty of Harvard University where he introduced Bauhaus concepts and design principles to a generation of American architects.
Gropius worked on a series of projects across the globe, including Columbia, Mexico, the United Kingdon, and Greensboro before forming the Architects Collaborative in 1945.
www.blandwood.org /Gropius.html   (284 words)

  
 Gropius, Walter - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
GROPIUS, WALTER [Gropius, Walter], 1883-1969, German-American architect, one of the leaders of modern functional architecture.
After World War I, Gropius became (1918) director of the Weimar School of Art, reorganizing it as the Bauhaus.
Practicing his principles of cooperative design, Gropius worked with a group of young architects on the design of the Harvard graduate center.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gropius.html   (373 words)

  
 bauhaus-archiv museum of design - bauhaus 1919 - 1933 - architecture - walter gropius
When, despite this situation, architecture tuition indeed became available, it was only because Walter Gropius readily accepted that his partner Adolf Meyer took on students in his private office and worked with them in the classical relationship of master and journeyman on the basis of incoming commissions.
Only very few student projects outside the office of Gropius are known: the most important one is the planning of a housing estate for members of the Bauhaus.
The looseness of the ties in the atmosphere at the Bauhaus in Weimar was extremely beneficial to this kind of school of thought.
www.bauhaus.de /english/bauhaus1919/architektur/architektur_gropius.htm   (457 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Walter Adolph Gropius
After serving on the Western Front during World War I, Gropius was appointed by the city of Weimar to be director of its two art schools, which he combined as the Staatliches Bauhaus (State Building School).
Gropius had left the Bauhaus to return to private practice some years before 1933, when the Nazis closed down the school.
In 1946, Gropius' belief in the importance of teamwork led him to form the Architects Collaborative, a group which carried out commissions such as the Harvard Graduate Center (1949), the US Embassy in Athens (1960) and the University of Baghdad (1960).
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/gropiusw2.shtml   (348 words)

  
 Cazoo.org: German-American Cultural Center
Walter Gropius (born May 18, 1883 in Berlin) founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919.
Gropius was one of the architects who "led the character and ideals of American building onto anther path", according to a publication by the Museum of Modern Art.
In 1928, Gropius returned to Berlin as an independent architect and built a housing complex in the Siemensstadt settlement.
www.cazoo.org /Germans/WalterGropius.htm   (280 words)

  
 Contributors: Walter Gropius
Gropius left the Bauhaus in 1928 to dedicate more time to his own practice.
In addition to his private practice and responsibilities at Harvard, Gropius served from 1945-1949 as consultant architect for the Container Corporation of America.
Gropius’ long term influence on design did not end with his death in 1969.
www.drleslie.com /Contributors/gropius.shtml   (266 words)

  
 Gropius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Walter Adolf Gropius was born in May of 1883.
Gropius received his education at the Technical Universities in Munich, as well as Berlin.
Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1925 in Dessau, Germany and served as the school’s director until 1928, at which time Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took his place as director.
iweb.tntech.edu /pcampana/gropius.htm   (367 words)

  
 Gropius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Walter Gropius (1883 -1969) was one of the leading architects of the 20th Century.
With the rise of the Third Reich, Gropius left Germany for London, and eventually settled in the United States, teaching at both MIT and Harvard, where he served a director of the School of Design.
Gropius held extremely idealistic views concerning the affect architecture and other arts would have for the betterment of mankind, and was often absent to further his ideals.
students.washington.edu /kimcroft/Alma/gropius.shtml   (316 words)

  
 Architecture - Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Gropius was a German-American architect and educator, who founded the Bauhaus, a German art school that became a seminal force in architecture and applied art during the first half of the 20th century.
Gropius resigned as director of the Bauhaus in 1928 to return to private practice.
Gropius died in Boston on July 5, 1969.
arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-ArchitectureGropius.htm   (391 words)

  
 Mass Moments: Composer Stravinsky Visits Gropius House in Lincoln
Gropius House in Lincoln is open to the public.
Gropius had designed the house according to the principles of the Bauhaus, the European school of architecture that he founded in 1919.
Ati Gropius remembers that "the members of the Modern Movement were in close contact with each other in those years and formed a community of kindred spirits." The Gropius house became their gathering place.
www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=131   (962 words)

  
 Germany Today - The Bauhaus School - Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus School in Dessau.
Gropius built his private residence in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Gropius traces the development of modern architecture and illuminates some fundamental problems related to art and industry.
www.cs.umb.edu /~alilley/baugropius.html   (231 words)

  
 Former Bauhaus student to speak in Sheffield and Liverpool
Gropius had been the Master of Form in the same workshop, but he had left some months before, so he was just a name to me at first.
Gropius said that everything must be made by hand, but with standardisation and mass production in mind, so that everybody can have beautiful things.
He knew Walter Gropius before the First World War and was inspired by his Bauhaus Manifesto when writing the programme for the Moscow Institute of Art and Culture in 1920.
www.wsws.org /articles/1999/nov1999/bau-n23.shtml   (4937 words)

  
 20¢ Gropius House by Walter Gropius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His Gropius House, located far out in the New England countryside, is a stirring example of the radical changes twentieth century architecture often included.
Gropius lined the whole south wall of his house with glass so that he could better appreciate the beauty of nature.
An irony of the present age is that Gropius House -- one of the world's foremost examples of modernism -- is today the property of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
www.unicover.com /EA1CAL5B.HTM   (437 words)

  
 Historic New England: Defining the Past. Shaping the Future.
Walter Gropius, founder of the German design school known as the Bauhaus, was one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
Restoration of the Gropius House was supported in part by a Save America's Treasures grant administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
The project encompassed repairs to the south and west elevations and replanting of the orchard and meadow.
www.spnea.org /visit/homes/gropius.htm   (350 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gropius,
Gropius, Walter GROPIUS, WALTER [Gropius, Walter], 1883-1969, German-American architect, one of the leaders of modern functional architecture.
Giedion was a student of Heinrich Wölfflin and close associate of Walter Gropius.
The term was first used by Philip Johnson in connection with a 1932 architectural exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Gropius,   (572 words)

  
 German American Corner: GROPIUS, Walter Adolph (1883-1969)
Walter Gropius was one of the most important architects and educators of the 20th century.
In 1937, Gropius was appointed to teach at Harvard.
Gropius espoused collaborative effort in the design process and founded a firm that he worked with until his death in Boston on July 5, 1969.
www.germanheritage.com /biographies/atol/gropius.html   (590 words)

  
 Walter Gropius - Great Buildings Online
Walter Gropius was born in Berlin in 1883.
After serving in the war, Gropius became involved with several groups of radical artists that sprang up in Berlin in the winter of 1918.
From 1938 to 1941, he worked on a series of houses with Marcel Breuer and in 1945 he founded "The Architect's Collaborative", a design team that embodied his belief in the value of teamwork.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Walter_Gropius.html   (347 words)

  
 Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969) Der Architekt : Jahre in den USA : 1937 --   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shepley schlug vor, Gropius einen Bauplatz auf ihren Ländereien zur Verfügung zu stellen, den Bau des Hauses zu finanzieren und an Gropius zu vermieten.
Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts Foto by Philip Greenspun
Gropius unterzog sich diesem einzigartigen "Auftrag", von dem er mit wahrer Begeisterung sprach, mit dem größten Vergnügen. Gropius holte Auskünfte über moderne Schweinehaltung ein, besorgte sich Unterlagen, und mit dem gebotenen Ernst studierte er die persönlichen Lebensgewohnheiten des braven Roro.
www.tu-harburg.de /b/kuehn/wg5.html   (1547 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Lawgiver -- Jun. 29, 1959 -- Page 1
The boxy building with flat roofs and ribbon-glass windows that Gropius built there in 1926 laid down the line architecture was to follow for the next three decades.
An exile from Hitler's Germany, Gropius introduced his methods as chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, revolutionized architecture in the U.S., became so firmly planted in architectural history that people were sometimes amazed to find him still a part of the present.
Gropius promptly agreed to increase the size by one-third (from 8,000 to 12,000 students).
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,864686,00.html   (593 words)

  
 ALMA : Walter Gropius
After she had departed, Gropius committed an unbelievable blunder; he wrote Alma a passionate love letter which he mistakenly addressed to Gustav Mahler.
Following Mahler´s death in 1911, a four-year separation ensued between Alma and Gropius when the latter learnt that Alma had given herself to Mahler as he lay dying, at a time when Gropius supposed her already to be his.
This led to Alma´s marriage to Gropius, from which their beautiful daughter Manon was born.
www.alma-mahler.at /engl/almas_life/gropius.html   (232 words)

  
 Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Gropius was born in Berlin, Germany in 1883.
Influenced by the ideas of William Morris, Gropius established the Arts and Crafts School in Weimar, which became the world-famous Bauhaus.
He was professor of architecture at Harvard University (1938-52) and designed the Harvard Graduate Center (1949), the American Embassy in Athens (1960), the University of Baghdad (1961) and the Pan Am Building (1963).
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAgropius.htm   (212 words)

  
 Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969) Internet-Quellen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gropius, Le Corbusier, Breuer and Markelius ; Walter Gropius, um 1940
Walter Gropius vom Walter Gropius Gymnasium in Selb, Schule
The late papers, relating to Gropius' career after 1937, and the photos of the early ones, then came to the Houghton Library; the early papers and photos of the late ones went to the Bauhaus Archiv, then in Darmstadt, since reestablished in Berlin.
www.tu-harburg.de /b/kuehn/wgqi.html   (569 words)

  
 Gropius Walter Adolph - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Gropius Walter Adolph - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Gropius, Walter Adolph (1883-1969), German-American architect and educator, who founded the Bauhaus, a German art school that became a seminal...
Gropius, Walter, Speech, Harvard Department of Architecture (quotations): Architecture: Architecture begins where engineering ends.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Gropius_Walter_Adolph.html   (96 words)

  
 HLS : Gropius Dormitories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Gropius Complex consists of five interconnected dormitories (Holmes, Ames, and Dane Halls; Story and Shaw Halls) for a total of 364 single furnished rooms.
Gropius offers traditional style dormitory housing with approximately 20 residents per hall, common lounges, shared kitchens and bathrooms.
The majority of the floors are co-educational with one single sex bathroom per floor.
www.law.harvard.edu /students/housing/dorms/gropius.php   (314 words)

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