After more than a decade of non-recognition by the Corporation, the teachings of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, in one corner of the Yard have entered through the back door into another ...
The Bauhaus mastermind was 85 years old when he agreed to design a new residency for the German ambassador in Buenos Aires. It was one of his last projects and among his best. The only problem — it ...
German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. As we continue our Bauhaus 100 series exploring the school's centenary, we profile the man who had a vision to make art accessible to the ...
“Biography as I’ve come to see it is a slow-burning process of the making of connections.” In 1964 the slow burn began with a chain of events that would lead Fiona MacCarthy to a chance encounter with ...
Following his own request that "all my friends of the present and of the past would get together in a little while for a fiesta--a la Bauhaus, " woo of those close friends gathered at the offices of ...
Growing up in what is now known as the Gropius House, the Lincoln residence designed by and named for her famous architect father, Ati Gropius Johansen experienced a childhood in which “esthetics were ...
Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 in Weimar, but after the school lost the confidence of the local state government, it moved into its iconic modernist buildings in Dessau, only to be chased away ...
A bust of Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus-Universität (via flickr.com/libaer2002) Cambridge, MA — There’s something that makes Harkness Commons — also known as ...
Italian artist Federico Babina has published the latest in his impressive portfolio of architectural illustrations. “Archivoid” seeks to “sculpt invisible masses of space” through the reading of ...