Gropius in a sentence

According to Elaine Hoffman, Gropius had approached the Dutch architect Mart Stam to run the newly founded architecture program, and when Stam declined the position, Gropius turned to Stam's friend and colleague in the ABC group, Hannes Meyer.

Walter Gropius and his second wife, Ise Gropius, arrived in the United States in February 1937, while their twelve-year-old daughter, Ati, finished the school year in England.

The fact that industry inspired architects is well known: American grain elevators informed the development of the modern “international style” via Bauhaus giant Walter Gropius and father-of-modernism Le Corbusier.

He could’ve made it something that really said, ‘Hey, look at me, I’m a building designed by Walter Gropius!’ but he didn’t.

Gropius, who was born in Berlin in 1883, built both the flat-roofed, glass-cornered building that housed the Bauhaus school in Dessau and the faculty and curriculum for a modern school of design.

On the cover, Gropius stands next to a rendering of his and Adolf Meyer’s entry in the 1922 Chicago Tribune tower competition, a striking assemblage of gridded boxes, asymmetrical projecting balconies and zero historical references.

Walter and Ise Gropius, a few year after their marriage in 1923.

Gropius was attuned to the spirit of neoclassicism then prevalent in Eisenhower’s America.

As opposed to Gropius's "study of essentials", and Meyer's research into user requirements, Mies advocated a "spatial implementation of intellectual decisions", which effectively meant an adoption of his own aesthetics.

Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer worked for him in this period.

Despite Gropius's protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933.

During the years under Gropius (1919–1927), he and his partner Adolf Meyer observed no real distinction between the output of his architectural office and the school.

Gropius also sat on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Visiting Committee at the end of his career.

Gropius collaborated with Carl Fieger, Ernst Neufert and others within his private architectural practice.

Gropius could not draw, and was dependent on collaborators and partner-interpreters throughout his career.

Gropius' neologism Bauhaus references both building and the Bauhütte, a premodern guild of stonemasons. citation The early intention was for the Bauhaus to be a combined architecture school, crafts school, and academy of the arts.

Gropius’s house received a huge response and was declared a National Landmark in 2000.

Gropius was commissioned in 1913 to design a car for the Prussian Railroad Locomotive Works in Königsberg.

In 1910 Gropius left the firm of Behrens and together with fellow employee Adolf Meyer established a practice in Berlin.

In 1913, Gropius published an article about "The Development of Industrial Buildings," which included about a dozen photographs of factories and grain elevators in North America.