Walter Gropius
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| + | "[[Walter Gropius]], head of the [[Bauhaus]], fled Germany and arrived at Harvard in the 1930s, he and many of his Bauhaus comrades were received like white gods come from the sky. The course of American architecture changed overnight. For the next thirty years American architecture-of every sort-would be based on designs and concepts devised for German worker housing in the 1920s."--''[[From Bauhaus to Our House]]'' (1981) by Tom Wolfe | ||
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| '''Walter Adolph Georg Gropius''' (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a [[German architect]] and founder of the [[Bauhaus]] School, who, along with [[Alvar Aalto]], [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]], [[Le Corbusier]] and [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of [[modernist architecture]]. He is a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the [[International Style (architecture)|International Style]]. | '''Walter Adolph Georg Gropius''' (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a [[German architect]] and founder of the [[Bauhaus]] School, who, along with [[Alvar Aalto]], [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]], [[Le Corbusier]] and [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of [[modernist architecture]]. He is a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the [[International Style (architecture)|International Style]]. | ||
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"Walter Gropius, head of the Bauhaus, fled Germany and arrived at Harvard in the 1930s, he and many of his Bauhaus comrades were received like white gods come from the sky. The course of American architecture changed overnight. For the next thirty years American architecture-of every sort-would be based on designs and concepts devised for German worker housing in the 1920s."--From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) by Tom Wolfe |
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He is a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style.
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