Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-born American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, [1] who is widely regarded as one of the …

Walter Gropius was a German American architect and educator who, particularly as director of the Bauhaus (1919–28), exerted a major influence on the development of modern architecture. His …

Walter Gropius was born in Berlin to Walter Adolph Gropius, a government official and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber, the daughter of the Prussian politician Georg Scharnweber. …

Jan 23, 2024 · Walter Gropius was a seminal figure in modernist architecture and the founder of the influential Bauhaus School of Art and Design. Born in 1883 in Berlin into a family with …

Apr 14, 2025 · Following in the footsteps of two generations of architects (his father and great-uncle), Walter Gropius began his path to envisioning the Bauhaus at technical institutes in …

May 18, 2020 · Walter Gropius with Harry Seidler in 1954. Image via Wikimedia Commons (image by Max Dupain in the public domain) Like many modernists of the period, Gropius was …

Nov 2, 2018 · Walter Gropius actually dropped out of college before finishing his degree. A year after leaving, in 1908, a recommendation from patron of the avant-garde Karl-Ernst Ostenhaus …

“A vital architectural spirit, rooted in the entire life of a people, represents the interrelation of all phases of creative effort, all arts, all techniques,” Walter Gropius wrote in his essay “The …

Walter Gropius, an émigré architect whose International Style and social insight helped define the aesthetics of the 20th century, would undoubtedly grasp and give vital form to the 21st century …

Apr 21, 2019 · German architect Walter Gropius (born May 18, 1883, in Berlin) helped launch modern architecture in the 20th century when he was asked by the German government to run …