Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Architecture, Bauhaus-Founder Walter Gropius (TIME, Feb. 8. 1937). Nobody would be less disposed than Herr Gropius to exaggerate the merit of his students' free designs at the expense of buildings actually erected, cities actually built under varying conditions in the U. S. S. R. Roughhewn, meditative Architect Gropius, a continual smoker of 5? miniature cigars, has made himself popular at Harvard by teaching a practical esthetic. Resenting architectural "styles" whether ancient or modern, he has established a new basis for instruction on Bauhaus principles: a thorough knowledge of building materials, training in three-dimensional rather than "paper" thinking...
Perambulator. Paul Klee has not been without honor in Europe or the U. S, At the world-famed Bauhaus directed by Architect Walter Gropius at Weimar, later Dessau, Germany, Klee was for nine years one of three artist-instructors in painting.*Like Picasso and de Chirico, he was tapped by the surrealists in the '20's but stayed outside the club. In 1930 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him the first big U. S. exhibition. When Germany became inclement to modern art five years ago, stern-faced, gentle Fantasist Klee settled near his birthplace...
...system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius' success is a requirement soon to be adopted by the Harvard Architectural School: that no student can graduate unless he has had six months' hard labor on a real construction...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week were three types of art from three nations. In one room were examples of U. S. industrial art in machined metal and glass. In another the Museum displayed modern furniture, scientifically designed in pale plywood by the brilliant Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. Balancing these examples of machine and functional art was a third room in which visitors found reportorial art of the most sensitive kind-an exhibition of 105 drawings made in Spain by the Leftist artist, Luis Quintanilla...
...great interest to the architect are the illustrations of recent Soviet architectures; both constructivism and formalism are illustrated and there are some examples of buildings in the revived classical tradition, characteristic of recent government architecture...