Walter Gropius

Posted by Richard Palace in May 18th, 2008

Google celebrates the birthday of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius with a special logo today.

Walter Gropius, born in Berlin, Germany on 18th May 1883, was the third son of Walter Adolph Gropius, German architect and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber.

He studied at the Colleges of Technology of Berlin and Munich and founded the Bauhaus school of design, which became a dominant force in architecture and the applied arts in the 20th century.

In March 1919, Walter Gropius was elected chairman of the Working Council for Art and a month later he was appointed Director of the Bauhaus.

In 1934, Walter Gropius opposed the Nazi regime and left Germany secretly. After several years in England, Gropius began teaching architecture at Harvard University.

Between 1938 to 1941, Gropius worked on several houses with Marcel Breuer and formed the Architects Collaborative in 1945.

On 5th July 1969, Walter Gropius died at age 86 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Important buildings from Walter Gropius:
* 1910-1911: Fagus Works, Alfred an der Leine, Germany
* 1925: The Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany
* 1937: The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
* 1949–1950: Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
* 1963: Pan Am Building, in collaboration with Pietro Belluschi, New York

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