The Bauhaus founder
Known for functionalist Modernist buildings – form follows function

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius, German architect
1883-1969
born Berlin, Germany; died Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Career:
Peter Behrens
1908–10

The Architects’ Collaborative - TAC
1945–69

Key Projects in the History of 20th Century Architecture:
Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany
1911
Werkbund Exhibition – office & factory, Cologne, Germany
1914
Bauhaus School, Dessau, Germany
1932
The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
1937
Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1950

Famous Buildings in popular sense:
Bauhaus School, Dessau, Germany
1932
Pan Am Building, Manhattan, New York
1963

Walter Gropius:
1st Wife: Alma Mahler, widow of Gustav Mahler; divorced 1920
Their daughter, Manon, died aged 18

2nd Wife Ise Frank, married 1923
Adopted child - Beate Gropius

Career:
Architect in Peter Behrens office (alongside Mies & Corb)
1908-10

Gropius & Meyer
1910-
Berlin practice with Adolf Meyer

Relevant Links:
Mies van der Rohe
Le Corbusier
Modern Architecture
Massachusetts Buildings
Peter Behrens



Bauhaus Building & Masters' Houses, Dessau, Germany: Competition
2008

Bauhaus Buildings

German Building

The Architect
Walter Gropius collaborated briefly with architect Marcel Breuer, who went to London in 1935. Gropius and Breuer quickly moved to America where Gropius set up TAC - The Architecture Collaborative, joined by the brilliant engineer George Patten. Marcel taught with Gropius at Harvard. He ran a studio in New York. Most of his work was in the United States of America but with some building projects in Europe, notably France.

Key Projects (chronological):

Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany
1910-11
aka Faguswerk – shoe lace factory, famous Modern building

Werkbund Exhibition – office & factory, Cologne, Germany
1914

Monument to the March Dead – war sculpture, Weimar, Germany
1919-20

Sommerfeld House, Berlin, Germnay
1921

Bauhaus School, Dessau, Germany
1925-32

Village College, Impington, Cambridge, England
1936

The Gropius House, 68 Baker Bridge Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
1937/38
Walter Gropius home

Aluminium City Terrace Housing, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA
1942-44

Peter Thacher Junior High School, Attleboro, Massachusetts
1948

Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1949-50

Interbau Apartments, Hansaviertel, Berlin, Germany
1957
with Wils Ebert

University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
1957-60

Wayland High School, Wayland, Massachusetts
1961

United States of America Embassy, Athens, Greece
1959–61
with Pericles A. Sakellarios

Pan Am Building, Manhattan, New York
1958-63
with Emery Roth & Sons and Pietro Belluschi
renamed Metlife Building

John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts
1963-66

Tower East, Shakre Heights, Ohio, USA
1967–69

Unbuilt Design:
Chicago Tribune Tower Competition entry
1922

Bauhaus
Took over the Weimar Bauhaus in 1915 after Van de Velde was asked to leave

House Klee/Kandinsky, Dessau, Germany
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Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent, England, UK
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