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Encyclopedia: Walter Gropius

Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third son of a building advisor to the government with the same name, and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber (1855–1933) whose family owned a manor near the capital city.

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	(Japanese)	ヴァルター・グロピウス
	(German)	Walter Gropius
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1883 in architecture

See also: 1882 in architecture, other events of 1883, 1884 in architecture and the architecture timeline. Buildings The Home Insurance Building in Chicago designed by William LeBaron Jenny (demolished 1931) Births May 18 - Walter Gropius (died 1969) Deaths...

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1919 in architecture

See also: 1918 in architecture, other events of 1919, 1920 in architecture and the architecture timeline. Buildings Events Bauhaus founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius. Births 21 June - Paolo Soleri Deaths...

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1925 in architecture

See also: 1924 in architecture, other events of 1925, 1926 in architecture and the architecture timeline. Buildings The Bauhaus moves to a building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius. Births 25 June - Robert Venturi Deaths...

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1969 in architecture

See also: 1968 in architecture, other events of 1969, 1970 in architecture and the architecture timeline. Buildings Births Deaths 5 July - Walter Gropius (born 1883) 17 August - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born 1886...

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Hansaviertel

Hansaviertel is a quarter in the Tiergarten borough of Berlin. It was almost completely destroyed during World War II, but it was rebuilt from 1955 to 1961 by a competition of international master architects (Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, etc.). The whole ensemble is now protected...

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Isokon building

The Isokon building in Lawn Road, Hampstead, London is a concrete block of 34 flats designed by architect Wells Coates for Jack and Molly Pritchard. They were built between 1933 and 1934. Pre-World War 2 residents included Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Agatha Christie and László Moholy-Nagy...

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1928 in architecture

Moderne initiated by Le Corbusier. Hannes Meyer succeeds Walter Gropius as head of the Bauhaus school...

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Black Mountain College

, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Lou Harrison, Franz Kline, Jacob Lawrence, Charles Olson, M. C. Richards...

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Eschersheim

wealthy residential area and was incorporated into Frankfurt in 1910. In the twenties and thirties Walter Gropius built the new settlement "Am Lindenbaum" and around the water tower in the south. In the...

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Herbert Bayer

became interested in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus manifesto. When Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising. Bayer adopted an all...

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