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5 unusual facts about Walter Gropius


Art Deco theaters of Manila

It was also visited by Walter Gropius during its inauguration in the 1950s, praising the theater's outstanding qualities.

Gottfried Böhm

While traveling in America he met two of his greatest inspirations, German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.

Impington Village College

Henry Morris, founder of the village college system, employed prominent architects to design the colleges, and Impington was designed by Walter Gropius, founder of The Bauhaus School of Architecture, and his partner Maxwell Fry.

Katsura Imperial Villa

Le Corbusier and especially Walter Gropius, who visited in 1953, found inspiration in the minimal and orthogonal design.

Max Krehan

In 1919, when the now-famous Bauhaus school of art and design began in nearby Weimar, its founder Walter Gropius established a workshop in production pottery, with the intention that it would be taught at a factory in Weimar.


66 Old Church Street, Chelsea

66 Old Church Street, Chelsea, London was designed in 1935-1936 for the politician and playwright Benn Levy by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry.

Cecil Stephenson

His other friends and neighbours over the years included Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Walter Gropius, Alexander Calder and Ben Nicholson.

Edith Tudor Hart

Brought up in a family of socialists, she trained in photography at Walter Gropius's Bauhaus in Dessau, and carried her political ideals through her art.

Enrique del Moral

While at Harvard he met Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and at the Illinois Institute of Technology, he formed a friendship with Mies Van der Rohe (c. 1948), who provided ideas that served as the basis for a new curriculum.

Harris Barron

From 1956 to 1969 he was commissioned to design and execute many large scale architectural sculptures for new public buildings, collaborating with several prominent architects, including Walter Gropius, Hugh Stubbins, and Percival Goodman.

Jacobus Oud

As of 1932, he was considered one of the four greatest modern architects (along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier), and was prominently featured in Philip Johnson's International Style exhibition.

Modern Greek architecture

Famous foreign architects who have also designed buildings in Greece during the 20th and 21st century, are Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen and Mario Botta.

Residencia de Estudiantes

Many prominent figures came to the Residencia for that purpose, people such as Albert Einstein, Paul Valéry, Marie Curie, Igor Stravinsky, John M. Keynes, Alexander Calder, Walter Gropius, Henri Bergson and Le Corbusier.

Village college

Under Morris' influence, many of the colleges have had distinguished architects, notably the one at Impington designed by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry.

World Heritage Centre

Plans were also validated by an international committee of five architects composed of Lucio Costa (Brazil), Walter Gropius (United States), Le Corbusier (France), Sven Markelius (Sweden) and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (Italy), with the collaboration of Eero Saarinen (Finland).


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