The newly renovated Gropius House. Image courtesy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Image © Christoph Rokitta Embassy of the United States in Athens, Greece ...

Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 in Weimar, but after the school lost the confidence of the local state government, it moved into its iconic modernist buildings in Dessau, only to be chased away ...

The General Services Administration (GSA) has been ordered to sell off properties it owns and/or leases. The order left many federal employees bewildered, given the Trump administration’s mandate that ...

Through a stroke of luck, Haus Otte from Walter Gropius narrowly escaped demolition. But when you stand in front of the bright plaster façade of this architectural wonder in Berlin’s Zehlendorf ...

When the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) acquired the Walter Gropius House in 1975, it raised some eyebrows. A house built in 1938 is worthy of becoming a historic ...

Walter Gropius, one of the leaders of the early 20th-century modernist movement in architecture and a founder of one of the world’s most important schools of design, was a cowboy at heart. Before ...

Biographical material, correspondence with architects and artists (1903-1978), writings (1923-1969), a diary, an autograph book, subject files, printed material, photographs (1883-1979) and 5 ...

No art movement in history has impacted the world of products quite like the Bauhaus. Founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, the school’s original manifesto proposed a ...

“Gropius,” he would say by way of introducing himself, which often left the other person fumbling momentarily for the master builder’s first names. It should have come as easily as Frank Lloyd. But ...

“Now, for the first time, when I have reached 70, things look safe for a while,” said Architect Walter Gropius on his birthday last week. “At long last, I am beginning to build much more than was ...

Well timed for the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first biography of Walter Gropius (1883–1969) since Reginald Isaacs’s Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus was translated ...

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