Word: bauhaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brainchild of a 47-year-old architect named Marcel Breuer, who made himself known 24 years ago by inventing tubular steel chairs (in Germany's longtime Mecca of modern architects, the Bauhaus school of design). Architect Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937, taught for nine years at Harvard under his old Bauhaus boss, Walter Gropius, before setting up in business in Manhattan...
...exhibitions Kuhn has organized concerns the methods and achievements of the Bauhaus, a German school of design founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Gropius is at present a professor of Architecture at Harvard and was one of the designers of the projected Graduate Center...
...profile like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students off by teaching them to draw straight lines and freehand letters...
Gropius catapulted into the world's eye during the early Twenties when he directed the Bauhaus school at Dessau. Here was a driving educational experiment founded on the iconoclastic thesis that an architect "is not an artist but a coordinator who must make all of his decisions from the point of view of the improved community." Beauty in a building is not skin- deep, held Gropius, but an integral part of the complete unity; more important, by "building" he did not mean an isolated structure but the street, town, region, nation...
Died. László Moholy-Nagy (pronounced Mohoy-Nadj), 51, Hungarian-born founder-director of Chicago's Institute of Design; of leukemia; in Chicago. Onetime top apostle of Germany's famed Bauhaus at Dessau (closed by the Nazis), he thought of art in terms of 20th Century mass production, inspired his Chicago students to design automobiles to run on sunlight, chairs light enough to be lifted by a thread, transparent walls filled with colored gases...