Itten was replaced by the Hungarian designer László Moholy-Nagy, who rewrote the Vorkurs with a leaning towards the New Objectivity favored by Gropius, which was analogous in some ways to the applied arts side of the debate.

It was this academy which Gropius transformed into the world famous Bauhaus, attracting a faculty that included Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Bartning and Wassily Kandinsky.

After Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus under such teachers as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and László Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising.

Moholy-Nagy lived for a time in the Isokon building with Walter Gropius for eight months and then settled in Golders Green.

Early famous residents included Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Agatha Christie ( 1940 – 46 ), László Moholy-Nagy, Adrian Stokes, Egon Riss and Arthur Korn.

In 1905 he was called upon by the Grand Duke of Weimar to establish the Grand-Ducal School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, the predecessor of the Bauhaus, which, following World War I, eventually replaced the School of Arts and Crafts, under new director Walter Gropius, who was suggested for the position by Van de Velde.

With the help of the English architect Maxwell Fry, Gropius was able to leave Nazi Germany in 1934, on the pretext of making a temporary visit to Britain.

The CD audiobook Bauhaus Reviewed 1919-33 includes a lengthy English Language interview with Gropius.

* 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

Such influences can be overstated: Gropius himself did not share these radical views, and said that Bauhaus was entirely apolitical.

The design innovations commonly associated with Gropius and the Bauhaus — the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit — were already partly developed in Germany before the Bauhaus was founded.

In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.

" Gropius ' neologism Bauhaus references both building and the Bauhütte, a premodern guild of stonemasons.

In 1919 Swiss painter Johannes Itten, German-American painter Lyonel Feininger, and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, along with Gropius, comprised the faculty of the Bauhaus.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

So the built output of Bauhaus architecture in these years is the output of Gropius: the Sommerfeld house in Berlin, the Otte house in Berlin, the Auerbach house in Jena, and the competition design for the Chicago Tribune Tower, which brought the school much attention.

The definitive 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau is also attributed to Gropius.

In 1923, Walter Gropius invited Rietveld to exhibit at the Bauhaus.

After graduating, he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design ( GSD ) and became friends with the Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.

Starting in 1930, Mies served as the last Director of the faltering Bauhaus, at the request of his colleague and competitor Walter Gropius.

When Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919, Feininger was his first faculty appointment, and became the master artist in charge of the printmaking workshop.

* 1883 – Walter Gropius, German architect, founded the Bauhaus school ( d. 1969 )

Bauhaus Dessau, built from 1925 to 1926 to a design by Walter Gropius founded modern architecture.

Its members also belonged to other art movements and groups during the Weimar Republic era, such as architect Walter Gropius ( founder of Bauhaus ), and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht ( agitprop theatre ).

Walter Gropius, a founder of the Bauhaus school, stated " we want an architecture adapted to our world of machines, radios and fast cars.

* Walter Gropius – architect, founder of the Bauhaus

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius ( May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969 ) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

In 1923, Gropius designed his famous door handles, now considered an icon of 20th-century design and often listed as one of the most influential designs to emerge from Bauhaus.

Gropius and his Bauhaus protégé Marcel Breuer both moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and collaborate on projects including The Alan I W Frank House in Pittsburgh and the company-town Aluminum City Terrace project in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, before their professional split.

Gropius could not draw, and was dependent on collaborators and partner-interpreters throughout his career.

The late papers, relating to Gropius ' career after 1937, and the photos of the early ones, then went to the Houghton Library at Harvard University ; the early papers and photos of the late papers went to the Bauhaus Archiv, then in Darmstadt, since reestablished in Berlin.

Following the war, he, like some other well known architects including Gropius and Breuer ( by then working in America ), contributed to the British post-War housing effort by introducing an early scheme for modular housing he called Room Unit Production.

" Eckbo began to take architecture classes with the former Bauhaus director Walter Gropius, who was then head of the architecture department while continuing to take classes in the landscape architecture department.

Both were zealously attached to the study of antiquities and the tastes and interests they held in common led them, in 1810, to join an expedition to Greece with Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, Carl Haller von Hallerstein, the German painter Jakob Linckh, and the then Austrian consul in Greece George Christian Gropius.

Rudolph earned his bachelor's degree in architecture at Auburn University ( then known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute ) in 1940 and then moved on to the Harvard Graduate School of Design to study with Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius.

He graduated from Williams College and then studied architecture at Harvard University and worked as a personal assistant to the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius.

The Violin Concerto was dedicated " to the memory of an Angel ", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meier worked for him in this period.

The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 as a merger of the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art.

When van de Velde was forced to resign in 1915 because he was Belgian, he suggested Gropius, Hermann Obrist and August Endell as possible successors.

Gropius was not necessarily against Expressionism, and in fact himself in the same 1919 pamphlet proclaiming this " new guild of craftsmen, without the class snobbery ," described " painting and sculpture rising to heaven out of the hands of a million craftsmen, the crystal symbol of the new faith of the future.

" By 1923 however, Gropius was no longer evoking images of soaring Romanesque cathedrals and the craft-driven aesthetic of the " Völkisch movement ", instead declaring " we want an architecture adapted to our world of machines, radios and fast cars.

Gropius's design for the Dessau facilities was a return to the futuristic Gropius of 1914 that had more in common with the International style lines of the Fagus Factory than the stripped down Neo-classical of the Werkbund pavilion or the Völkisch Sommerfeld House.

Two projects, the apartment building project in Dessau and the Törten row housing also in Dessau, fall in that category, but developing worker housing was not the first priority of Gropius nor Mies.

It was very well received ; Gropius, in fact, called it " the best thing done in master class ".

He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and to progressive German culture, working alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

Modern Architecture, as established and developed by people such as Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Philip Johnson, was focused on the pursuit of a perceived ideal perfection, and attempted harmony of form and function, and dismissal of " frivolous ornament.

Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber.