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20th Century Architecture - ModernismBuilding News 2009Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, USA : Demolition of Walter Gropius Buildings photo © GCC Michael Reese Hospital Practice InformationThe Bauhaus founderKnown 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 Selected Walter Gropius Buildings in more detailBauhaus Building & Masters' Houses, Dessau, Germany: Competition2008  Bauhaus Buildings Berlin Archive Museum of Design, Berlin, Germany designed 1964 ; built 1976-79  photo © Adrian Welch Bauhaus-Archiv Interbau Apartment House, Berlin, Germany 1957 Walter Gropius (Bauhasu founder), TAC with Wils Elbert  photo © Adrian Welch Hansaviertel Buildings by various celebrated 20th Century architects 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. Relevant LinksMies van der RoheLe Corbusier Modern Architecture Massachusetts Buildings Peter Behrens Key Projects, chronologicalFagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany1910-11 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 - Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent, England, UK - |
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