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Walter Gropius

German-American architect
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Also known as: Walter Adolph Gropius
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Professor of Architectural History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Author of American Architecture, 1607–1976.
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Walter Adolph Gropius
Born:
May 18, 1883, Berlin, Ger.
Died:
July 5, 1969, Boston, Mass., U.S. (aged 86)
Founder:
Bauhaus
The Architects Collaborative
Movement / Style:
International Style
Novembergruppe
Notable Family Members:
spouse Alma Mahler
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architecture
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Walter Gropius (born May 18, 1883, Berlin, Ger.—died July 5, 1969, Boston, Mass., U.S.) 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 works, many executed in collaboration with other architects, included the school building and faculty housing at the Bauhaus (1925–26), the Harvard University Graduate Center, and the United States Embassy in Athens. Gropius, the son of an architect father, studied architecture at the technical institutes in Munich (1903–04) and in Berlin–Charlottenburg (1905–07). He worked briefly in an architectural office in Berlin ...(100 of 1726 words)

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