Master architect Walter Gropius built Tower East in 1968. Featuring an International-style of architecture with exposed exterior concrete and a modular, grid-like façade, Tower East is the only ...

Hindsight Walter Gropius’s lost architectural dream for Iraq He founded the Bauhaus and an influential Cambridge firm. But his greatest unfinished project would have reshaped Baghdad.

Constructed from 1966 to 1968, the tower was the last major commission completed by German architect Walter Gropius before he died in 1969.

The project, which would become the Pan Am Building (now MetLife Building), would bring together two leading figures in modern architecture: Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi.

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A century after its founding, the German school of art and architecture remains one of the most transcendent — and frustrating — movements of the Modernist age.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alexandra Lange GROPIUS The Man Who Built the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy Walter Gropius has ...

Barry Bergdoll reviews a biography of Walter Gropius that aims to counter his legacy as a cold modernist, and a Bauhaus study that examines the existing ecosystem that allowed its growth.

Walter Gropius moved to the United States when he became Professor of Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1937. He built a family home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, a ...

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 ...

Walter Gropius founded the German design school a century ago, but his work, now antique, still feels ahead of its time.

So Harvard invited Gropius, with his penchant for function over beauty, and all his radical beliefs that, in design, aesthetics should follow or emerge from function.