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Walter Gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus School in Dessau. He became Chair of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1937. Among his students was I.M. Pei. |
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WALTER GROPIUS |
The Gropius
House
The former private residence of Walter Gropius in Boston is now museum. The interior is completely preserved and the web site now features a photo tour. The building is fascinating to visit! |
 Walter
Gropius - The Architect and His Work
This Web site is a project by Hermann Kuehn, subject librarian of the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. The architects work is presented by subject, and contains a comprehensive and well organized list of links to Web sites, definitions and literary sources. While primarily written in German, the occasional English text will help you along and the site primarily consists of links. |
| Bauhaus School Building
in Dessau (in German)
This building was in use 1925 - 1933. Today it is home to the Bauhaus Foundation, called Bauhaus Dessau. In 1997 the building was added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage along with Bauhaus in Weimar. Today, the Bauhaus Dessau is involved in preservation, education, exhibitions and various other activities. The first book below relates directly to the Dessau building. |
| Books |
The
Dessau Bauhaus Building 1926-1999
(Edited by Margret Kentgens-Craig and the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau,
1999). |
The
New Architecture and the Bauhaus (By Walter
Gropius, MIT Press 1965) Gropius
traces the development of modern architecture and illuminates some
fundamental problems related to art and industry. |
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