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    fighting for four years. Gropius then, like his father and his great-uncle Martin Gropius before him, became an architect. Gropius's career advanced in the...
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    family residence of Modernist architect Walter Gropius, his wife Ise Gropius (née Frank), and their daughter Ati Gropius. The house was designated a National...
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    in 1911. In 1915, Alma married Walter Gropius, and they had a daughter, Manon Gropius. Throughout her marriage to Gropius, Alma engaged in an affair with...
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  • and wife of the architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. Her parents separated soon after Gropius discovered Alma's affair with the writer Franz...
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    Bauhaus (category Walter Gropius buildings)
    understanding of architecture and design. The Bauhaus was founded by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar. It was grounded in the idea of creating a Gesamtkunstwerk...
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    was a school founded in Weimar in 1919 under the direction of Walter Gropius. Gropius was the son of the official state architect of Berlin, who studied...
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    The Walter Gropius House (also known as "Gropiushaus") is a residential building with nine floors and 66 apartments at the Händelallee 1-9 in Berlin Hansaviertel...
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  • Gropius is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ati Gropius Johansen (1926–2014), daughter of Walter Gropius and his second wife...
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    Harvard Graduate Center (category Walter Gropius buildings)
    physical Gropius hallmarks – large windows, flowing rooms, floating facades on raised pilotis [citation needed]– are all present here. Gropius makes clear...
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    Richard Neutra and Philip Johnson. The founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius, along with prominent Bauhaus instructor, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,...
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    with Walter Gropius 1939 Ford House – Lincoln, Massachusetts – with Walter Gropius 1939 Frank House – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – with Walter Gropius 1939...
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    according to plans submitted by the architectural office of Walter Gropius. Although Gropius had said that the Bauhaus should remain politically neutral...
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    German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus. He was born in Südern-Linden...
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    Henry van de Velde, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Walter Gropius came to the city and founded the Bauhaus movement, the most important...
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    surfaces and severe geometric compositions. Examples of this include Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer's 1911 Fagus Factory or Hans Poelzig's 1912 department...
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    artists were lecturers in Dessau in the following years, among them Walter Gropius, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The Nazis control of Dessau city council...
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    architecture. Examples are Bruno Taut, Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe. By 1927 Gropius, Taut, Scharoun and Mies were all building in the...
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    Moholy-Nagy lived in the Isokon building with Walter Gropius for eight months and then settled in Golders Green. Gropius and Moholy-Nagy planned to establish an...
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    Gropiusstadt (category Walter Gropius buildings)
    the complex: Walter Gropius. Building of the quarter, initially named Britz-Buckow-Rudow and projected in a modernist style by Walter Gropius, ended in 1960...
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  • advocacy of affordable housing led to his collegial friendship with Walter Gropius. Gropius, founder of the German Bauhaus School of Design and visionary champion...
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    MetLife Building (category Walter Gropius buildings)
    New York City. Designed in the International style by Richard Roth, Walter Gropius, and Pietro Belluschi and completed in 1962, the MetLife Building is...
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    Fagus Factory (category Walter Gropius buildings)
    In January 1911 he contacted Walter Gropius and offered him the job of redesigning the facades of Werner's plan. Gropius accepted the offer and a long...
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    Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau (category Walter Gropius buildings)
    UNESCO, December 2015. The Bauhaus was founded in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius and remained there until 1925 when it moved to Dessau due to political...
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    visible reality. The Bauhaus at Weimar, Germany was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. The philosophy underlying the teaching program was unity of all the...
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    Niemeyer-Haus, Walter Gropius-Haus, Alvar Aalto-Haus, Corbusierhaus, and Congress Hall. The Walter Gropius House was designed by Walter Gropius and Wils Ebert...
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    Martin Carl Philipp Gropius (11 August 1824, Berlin – 13 December 1880) was a German architect. Gropius studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin and after...
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    Bauhaus Dessau (category Walter Gropius buildings)
    Dessau-Roßlau) was built in 1928/1929 according to designs by Walter Gropius. Gropius' private architectural office also carried out the construction...
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  • this phrase. The Bauhaus movement in Germany, with figures such as Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, also embraced similar ideas. This principle is based...
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    became the office boss of the firm of Walter Gropius around 1915 and a full partner afterwards. In 1919, Gropius appointed Meyer as a master at the Bauhaus...
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    federal modernism include Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Victor Lundy. Federal modernism has been criticized by some architects...
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