Walter Gropius (1883–1969)
Autor de La nueva arquitectura y La Bauhaus
Sobre El Autor
Walter Gropius, as leader of the famous Bauhaus, as teacher, and as designer, was a dominant figure in twentieth-century architecture. Born in Berlin to a family with a great architectural tradition (his father was an architect), he strove---in the years after World War I---to bring architecture mostrar más into harmony with the new industrial age and with the social needs of the times. Gropius was one of the founders of the Deutsche Werkbund (1907), whose aim was the modern design of everyday objects. In 1919 he became director of the Weimar School of Design, which he reorganized and renamed the Bauhaus; its goal was to educate designers who would create functional, rational, and socially responsive architecture and objects of art for daily use. In 1925 the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, where, for its new quarters, Gropius designed buildings in a clean, functional, highly innovative style. In 1937 he came to the United States, where he headed the highly influential department of architecture at Harvard University until 1952. A firm and articulate believer in teamwork, Gropius founded the Architects Collaborative, which designed a number of buildings, including the U.S. Embassy in Athens and the Pan American Building (now the MetLife Building) in New York City. Working with a team of young architects, Gropius designed the Harvard Graduate Center. He also wrote several books, among them The Scope of Total Architecture (1952). As a teacher, lecturer, and writer, as well as an architect, Gropius had an enormous influence on a whole generation of American architects. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: 1920 photograph
Obras de Walter Gropius
Twentieth-century classics: Walter Gropius: Bauhaus, Dessau, Le Corbusier: Unité d'habitation, Marseille, Louis I.… (1999) 47 copias
Rebuilding our communities 3 copias
Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture Walter Gropius, Kenzo Tange (1961) 2 copias
Der Architekt Walter Gropius: Drawings, Prints and Photographs from Busch-Reisinger Museum of Harvard University Art… (1985) 2 copias
World perspectives 1 copia
[untitled] 1 copia
Das Spätwerk 1 copia
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- Gropius, Walter Adolf Georg
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1883-05-18
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1969-07-05
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Germany (birth)
USA (naturalized 1944) - País (para mapa)
- Germany
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Berlin, Germany
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Berlin, Germany
Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA - Ocupaciones
- architect
- Relaciones
- Mahler-Werfel, Alma (wife)
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1962])
German Army (WWI)
Bauhaus - Premios y honores
- Goethepreis der Stadt Frankfurt (1961)
Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1958)
Iron Cross
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- Miembros
- 490
- Popularidad
- #50,416
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 43
- Idiomas
- 6