walter gropius

     

While teaching at Harvard, this Bauhaus founder helped design the Harvard University Graduate Center

Trivia about walter gropius

  • This Bauhaus founder became a U.S. citizen in 1944 & taught architecture at Harvard
  • After resigning as director of the Bauhaus in 1928, he designed car bodies
  • During World War I, this future Bauhaus founder was wounded & received the Iron Cross for bravery
  • A 1949 issue showed the very modern home of this architect & Bauhaus founder
  • After WWI he became director of the Grand Ducal art school in Weimar; in 1925 he moved the school to Dessau
  • This German-American who designed Harvard's Grad Center headed the Architecture Dept. from 1938 to 1952
  • His school in Dessau, Germany was designed as a set of transparent, free-flowing volumes

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