Poor Walter Gropius, forever condemned to be the hate-figure of modern architecture. The hate appeared early in Evelyn Waugh’s 1928 novel Decline and Fall, where Gropius appears thinly disguised ...

One of the most highly regarded architects of the 20th century, Walter Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was one of the founding fathers of Modernism, and the founder of the Bauhaus, the ...

Walter Gropius founded the German design school a century ago, but his work, now antique, still feels ahead of its time.

Walter Gropius, one of the leaders of the early 20th-century modernist movement in architecture and a founder of one of the world’s most important schools of design, was a cowboy at heart ...

Walter Gropius moved to the United States when he became Professor of Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1937. He built a family home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, a ...

German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. As we continue our series exploring the school's centenary, we profile the man who had a vision to make art accessible to the masses ...

Home Buying There’s a piece of Modernist architectural history on the market in Framingham This rare listing was designed by Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. 325 Winter St ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alexandra Lange GROPIUS The Man Who Built the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy Walter Gropius has ...

When German architect Walter Gropius came to the United States, he carried in his suitcase the blueprints for a revolution in design. The year was 1937. Behind him was more than two decades as ...

The school suffered, too. Gropius had tried hard to keep politics out of art, but the Nazis were increasingly hostile to the Bauhaus, branding its output degenerate. Starved of funds, it closed in ...