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1 day 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 ...
1 day ago · Iconic buildings exemplify these ideals, such as the Bauhaus School in Dessau and the White City of Tel Aviv. The movement also profoundly influenced modernist architecture in the United States, mainly through the works of Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, who emigrated following the rise of the Nazi regime.
2 days ago · The varied efforts made during these decades to establish a stronger footing for history teaching within design education can be thought of as a prolonged reckoning with an act that has assumed a quasi-mythological importance: Walter Gropius’s banning of history courses at the Bauhaus in 1929.
4 days ago · A vision of the future, 1925-1927: at top, the Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius. Below, Gropius’ utopian vision was that students and teachers would collaborate on new ideas and physical expressions, “functional design.”
4 days ago · Perhaps her most famous carpet from this period lay in the office of Walter Gropius from 1924 onwards, but unfortunately has not survived. Admired for their innovative use of geometric patterns, bold colors, and functional beauty, Arndt became one of the top carpet designers in the workshop, along with Benita Koch-Otte. Remaining true to ...
4 days ago · The project, which would become the Pan Am Building (now MetLife Building), would bring together two leading figures in modern architecture: Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi. It was Roth’s...
1 day ago · In his proclamation of the Bauhaus school in 1919, Gropius advocates for an organic reunification of architecture, painting, and sculpture accompanied by Lyonel Feininger’s woodcut, where interlacing rays join in a mountainous edifice, strikingly similar to Bruno Taut’s treatise drawings of an “Alpine Architecture,” published a little ...
