[PDF] Walter Gropius 1883 1969 eBook

Author : Gilbert Lupfer
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783822835319

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Born and educated in Germany, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) belongs to the select group of architects that massively influenced the international development of modern architecture. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, Gropius made inestimable contributions to his field, to the point that knowing his work is crucial to understanding Modernism. His early buildings, such Fagus Boot-Last Factory and the Bauhaus Building in Dessau, with their use of glass and industrial features, are still indispensable points of reference. After his emigration to the United States, he influenced the education of architects there and became, along with Mies van der Rohe, a leading proponent of the International Style.

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Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3035617430

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As founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius (1883–1969) is one of the icons of 20the century architecture. While his early buildings in Pomerania were still strongly marked by his teacher Peter Behrens, after an expressionistic phase focused on handicraft, he ultimately arrived at geometric abstraction. During the entire period he collaborated with other architects, founding the collective known as "The Architects Collaborative" in the US. The comprehensive monograph documents all 74 of the known buildings by Gropius that were realized, including many early works which he never publicized; but it also critically examines his unbuilt projects. The book is illustrated with new photographs by the author, historical figures, and with as new plans drawn by the author.

Author : Walter Gropius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000530019

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Originally published in 1956, this book provides a non-technical analysis of contemporary building by on the of the world’s greatest architects. Published a few years after the end of WW2, it was an inspiring and constructive picture of what kind of living could lie ahead for Western industrial society. This book, the result of many year in the forefront of architectural experiment and achievement by the author, outlines in practical terms the road to improved existence through science, mass production in building and renewed emphasis on the individual.

Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674737857

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Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Walter Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the vision and courage that carried him through a politically hostile age. Approaching the Bauhaus founder from all angles, she offers a poignant personal story, one that reexamines the urges that drove Euro-American modernism as a whole.

Author : Walter Gropius
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1965-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262570060

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One of the most important books on the modernist movement in architecture, written by a founder of the Bauhaus school. One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and The Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new artist and architect educated to new materials and techniques and directly confronting the requirements of the age.

Author : Laura Muir
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300254167

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A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought their innovative practices and teaching methods to the United States. Gropius himself accepted a position at Harvard, where he would help establish a collection of Bauhaus material that has since grown to more than 30,000 objects--the largest such collection outside Germany. Harvard in turn became an unofficial center for the Bauhaus in America. Written by established and emerging voices in the field, the scholarship presented here expands on the special link between the two institutions, while highlighting understudied aspects of the Bauhaus, such as weaving, photography, and art made by women. Accompanied by beautiful illustrations--some of never-before-published objects--this book yields fascinating insights for Bauhaus devotees and design aficionados. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums

Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780571295142

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Fiona MacCarthy's captivating biography of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius is a 'masterpiece' (Edmund de Waal)

Author : Reginald R. Isaacs
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780821217535

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The public and private Walter Gropius is presented here by a long-time friend and colleague.