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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

One of the most highly regarded architects of the 20th century, Walter Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was one of the founding fathers of Modernism, and the founder of the Bauhaus, the ...

When German architect Walter Gropius came to the United States, he carried in his suitcase the blueprints for a revolution in design. The year was 1937. Behind him was more than two decades as head… ...