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

Gropius and Marcel
Two of these, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, took positions at the Harvard GSD.
He attended Harvard Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer on a scholarship in 1945-46, during which time he did vacation work with Alvar Aalto in Boston drawing up plans for the Baker dormitory at MIT.
In 1941, New Kensington became the site of a modern workers ' housing project — named the Aluminum City Terrace — designed by Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, which set new standards for federal housing design.
Neutra's appointment was part of an ambitious program of architectural commissions to renowned architects, which included embassies by Walter Gropius in Athens, Edward Durrell Stone in New Delhi, Marcel Breuer in The Hague, Josep Lluis Sert in Baghdad, and Eero Saarinen in London.
Early famous residents included Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Agatha Christie ( 1940 – 46 ), László Moholy-Nagy, Adrian Stokes, Egon Riss and Arthur Korn.
It became a haven for Germans escaping Nazi persecution and hosted many famous personages including Christie, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.
Gropius and Marcel Breuer introduced Eckbo to the idea of the social role in architecture, the link between society and spatial design.
Then he earned a second bachelor ’ s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where his professors included architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.
A month before he left for the USA, Gropius recommended Marcel Breuer, a former colleague at the Bauhaus, as his replacement for Controller of Design.
Knoll also received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Armour Institute ( now Illinois Institute of Technology ) in 1941 and briefly worked with leaders of the Bauhaus movement, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and the American modernist, Wallace K. Harrison.

Gropius and Breuer
Breuer and Gropius ascribed to the famous Bauhaus School of Design in Germany.
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.
) At the same time, Breuer worked with old friend and Bauhaus colleague Walter Gropius, also at Harvard, on the design of several houses in the Boston area and elsewhere.
Breuer dissolved his partnership with Gropius in May 1941 and established his own firm in New York.

Gropius and both
Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meier worked for him in this period.
Although Gropius and Meyer only designed the facade, the glass curtain walls of this building demonstrated both the modernist principle that form reflects function and Gropius's concern with providing healthful conditions for the working class.
The State College of Trades and Architecture, or College of Architecture for short, succeeded the Bauhaus in 1926, which, since the State School of Architecture had moved to Gotha, offered its own regular postgraduate courses in Architecture in the form both Van de Velde and Gropius had long envisioned.

Gropius and moved
He moved to Weimar in 1922, deciding to make an impression on the Bauhaus principal, Walter Gropius, in order to spread the influence of the movement.
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.

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