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 ...
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 ...
LINCOLN — For decades, architecture and design enthusiasts have made pilgrimages here to the Gropius House — a paragon of mid-century cool with its clean lines, iconic furnishings, and landscape of ...
From Weimar to Ikea ... a brilliant biography makes clear the master of modernism’s deep influence on design If Fiona MacCarthy were a less confident writer, she would have started her biography of ...
Step into the heart of Germany’s Bauhaus legacy this September. Dessau, home to the iconic art school, is marking its centenary with fresh exhibitions that bring modernist design to life. Germany in ...
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 ...
“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 ...
The hard lines and sharp corners of the architectural evangelists were too much for 1930s Britain – which Walter Gropius called a ‘land of fog and emotional nightmares’. Here’s what the UK could have ...
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