Walter Gropius (1883–1969)
Autor(a) de The New Architecture and The Bauhaus
About the Author
Walter Gropius, as leader of the famous Bauhaus, as teacher, and as designer, was a dominant figure in twentieth-century architecture. Born in Berlin to a family with a great architectural tradition (his father was an architect), he strove---in the years after World War I---to bring architecture mostrar mais into harmony with the new industrial age and with the social needs of the times. Gropius was one of the founders of the Deutsche Werkbund (1907), whose aim was the modern design of everyday objects. In 1919 he became director of the Weimar School of Design, which he reorganized and renamed the Bauhaus; its goal was to educate designers who would create functional, rational, and socially responsive architecture and objects of art for daily use. In 1925 the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, where, for its new quarters, Gropius designed buildings in a clean, functional, highly innovative style. In 1937 he came to the United States, where he headed the highly influential department of architecture at Harvard University until 1952. A firm and articulate believer in teamwork, Gropius founded the Architects Collaborative, which designed a number of buildings, including the U.S. Embassy in Athens and the Pan American Building (now the MetLife Building) in New York City. Working with a team of young architects, Gropius designed the Harvard Graduate Center. He also wrote several books, among them The Scope of Total Architecture (1952). As a teacher, lecturer, and writer, as well as an architect, Gropius had an enormous influence on a whole generation of American architects. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: 1920 photograph
Obras por Walter Gropius
Twentieth-century classics: Walter Gropius: Bauhaus, Dessau, Le Corbusier: Unité d'habitation, Marseille, Louis I.… (1999) 47 exemplares
The Architects Collaborative, 1945-1965 5 exemplares
Rebuilding our communities 3 exemplares
Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture Walter Gropius, Kenzo Tange (1961) 2 exemplares
Der Architekt Walter Gropius: Drawings, Prints and Photographs from Busch-Reisinger Museum of Harvard University Art… (1985) 2 exemplares
World perspectives 1 exemplar
[untitled] 1 exemplar
Das Spätwerk 1 exemplar
Bauhausbücher 1, Internationale Architektur 1 exemplar
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Gropius, Walter Adolf Georg
- Data de nascimento
- 1883-05-18
- Data de falecimento
- 1969-07-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Germany (birth)
USA (naturalized 1944) - País (no mapa)
- Germany
USA - Local de nascimento
- Berlin, Germany
- Local de falecimento
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- Berlin, Germany
Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA - Ocupações
- architect
- Relações
- Mahler-Werfel, Alma (wife)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1962])
German Army (WWI)
Bauhaus - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Goethepreis der Stadt Frankfurt (1961)
Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1958)
Iron Cross
Membros
Críticas
Bauhausbücher 1, Internationale Architektur por Walter Gropius
The 1925 true 1st edition of the maiden issue of "Bauhaus Bucher", the iconic series of 14 separate books spaning 1925-1930, each devoted to the foundations of Bauhaus and edited by Walter Gropius. This, the first book in the series, boasts a Moholy-Nagy front cover and was additionally edited by Moholy-Nagy.Design: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Zweite veränderte Auflage. Viertes bis sechstes Tausend.
One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and The Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new artist and architect educated to new materials and techniques and directly confronting the requirements of the age.
I really like the large-format case studies that Phaidon published in the 1990s, almost as much as I like the cheaper triplets they collected into hardcover volumes, such as this one. If I could have only one of those titles, this would be the one, given the quality and importance of the buildings. By virtue, each case study is an important building, but the Bauhaus by Gropius, Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation and Louis I. Kahn's Salk Institute are three of the greatest pieces of architecture, three must-see modern buildings. Like the others 3s, the descriptions are thorough, the photographs beautiful, and the drawings helpful in understanding each building.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 21
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 485
- Popularidade
- #50,913
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 6
- ISBN
- 42
- Línguas
- 6