One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the[...]
The concept for the Bauhaus - literally 'building house' - came from Walter Gropius, a practicing architect and one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. Young Gropius's idea for the Bauhaus emerged from his experience of the first world war in which he served as a cavalry officer on the wester[...]
Als Architekturlehrer fand der Emigrant Walter Gropius in Harvard 1937 seinen neuen Wirkungsort in den USA. Als Architekt bot sich ihm erst zehn Jahre spater die Chance zur Burogrundung. Mit sieben jungen Partnern grundete er das Architektenkollektiv The Architects Collaborative. Hier stand der Team[...]
In 1924, while Director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius built the Auerbach House, his first private house in the Bauhaus mode. Thus, this building is one of the most important milestones for the early years of the Bauhaus. Certainly, the most outstanding feature of the house is the authentic interior[...]