Through a stroke of luck, Haus Otte from Walter Gropius narrowly escaped demolition. But when you stand in front of the bright plaster façade of this architectural wonder in Berlin’s Zehlendorf ...

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 ...

Walter Gropius, one of the leaders of the early 20th-century modernist movement in architecture and a founder of one of the world’s most important schools of design, was a cowboy at heart. Before ...

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 ...

When the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) acquired the Walter Gropius House in 1975, it raised some eyebrows. A house built in 1938 is worthy of becoming a historic ...

Often termed the world's most noted architect, Walter Gropius, arrived at Robinson Hall yesterday to take over his new duties as professor of Architecture. "It is not in my mind to import a dry style ...

In 1919, architect Walter Gropius opened a small school in Weimar, Germany that soon became a breeding ground for a new aesthetic movement. Whether you’re aware of it or not, the Bauhaus—the first ...

Well timed for the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first biography of Walter Gropius (1883–1969) since Reginald Isaacs’s Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus was translated ...

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