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Jun 14, 2024 · Impington village college, the fourth established in the county, was opened in 1939 on a site given by Chivers and Sons Ltd. in Impington Park. Chivers paid for the adult wing. The original building, designed by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry, has been widely admired as a pioneering example of the modern movement.
Jun 29, 2024 · In December 1937, Walter Gropius , who had recently arrived in the United States from England, visited Black Mountain College where his Bauhaus colleagues Josef Albers and Xanti Schawinsky were teaching. At the time he was teaching architecture at Harvard University. In 1938 he was appointed Chairman of Harvard's Department of Architecture.
Jun 25, 2024 · In 1920 Klee received an appointment to teach at the Bauhaus, the school of modern design founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, by the architect Walter Gropius. Klee’s principal duty, like that of his fellow Bauhaus artists Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy, was to lecture in the basic design program on the mechanics of art.
Jun 8, 2024 · Lewin House, Walter Gropius and Peter Behrens (1928) For this home on the outskirts of Berlin (Germany), Walter Gropius and Peter Behrens teamed up for the design. Finished in 1928, the design is crisp and clean with an almost-introverted facade. The rear is much more open to the outdoors. Privately owned, so not available for tours.
6 days ago · In 1911, Walter Gropius and Alfred Meyer have done a draft of the glass facade of Fagus shoe factory, promising future Bauhaus style (curtain wall of the Bauhaus building in Dessau - 1925). In 1914, at an Werkbund exhibition in Cologne, they presented their proposal for a typical factory, with a - for those days - modern, glass staircases at ...
20 hours ago · Gropius himself, who is suspected of antisemitism, was a member of the Chamber of Culture founded by Goebbels and participated in an architecture contest organized by the Nazis. In 1934, he designed a pavilion for the propagandistic German People-German Labor exhibition, as did Mies van der Rohe, who was the director of the Bauhaus from 1930 to ...
Jun 17, 2024 · La sede del Bauhaus di Dessau. Fra il 1925 e l’anno seguente, Gropius progettò a Dessau la seconda sede del Bauhaus, la scuola che era stata fondata nel 1919 per ricomporre il rapporto tra arte, artigianato e industria attraverso la produzione industriale di massa. Per la sua importanza, questo edificio è entrato a far parte del Patrimonio ...
