Architect – Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius was a German architect. Born in 1883, he died in Boston in 1969. In spite of dropping out of college, within a year, he found himself in the office of Pater Behrens the founder of the Deutsche Werkbund assocation. In 1919 Gropius founded the Bauhaus School. The Staaatliches Bauhaus was created through the merging of the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Arts and Crafts. The philosophy of the Bauhaus School was to make art accessible to the masses not just a select few. The school did not have an architecure department till 1927. Alongside Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rhode, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright Gropius is regarded as one of the most important architects of the modernist architecture. He is also the leading architect of the International Style. In spite of this influence he could not draw – for that he had people. Gropius moved to the United States in 1937 and was appointment professor at Harvard, and subsequently became the Director of the Department of Architecture. (not bad for a dropout who could not draw). There he founded The Architects Collaborative (TAC) (sounds like the subject of another post)..


Fagus Factory
1911




Bruno Taut Glass Pavillion
1914




Werkbund Exposition
1914




Bauhaus Building
1926




66 Old Church Chelsea
1936



Gropius House
1938
So forward thinking that though nothing has been moved for oh so many years it still looks contemporary.




Impington Village College
1939




Aluminum City Terrace Building 22
1942




Story Hall
1949




Office Tower, University of Baghdad
1950




University of Baghdad
1950



University of Baghdad Mosque
1950




John F Kennedy Federal Building
1960




Met Life Building
1960