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Architect Noyes, 42, has spent 15 years looking for ways to make modern living pleasanter. After getting his master's degree from Harvard ('38) in the days when Gropius and Marcel Breuer were revolutionizing the staid architecture department with their Bauhaus ideas, Noyes decided to tackle the whole field of design from industry to houses. He went to work for Designer Norman Bel Geddes, reshaping everything from jukeboxes to radios...
...guests at his birthday party in Chicago got a chance to see what Gropius has been up to since he left Harvard's Graduate School of Design last year (TIME, July 14). The founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus showed 300 friends and colleagues a model of a sheer, glass-walled office building, as clean and functional as a tumbler, which will rise 18 stories near Chicago's Loop. Also on display was an immense aerial view of Chicago's project to redevelop seven square miles of the city's South Side, including a spacious...
...Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning into a single School of Desing. He brought Gropius to the school in 1937, when Gropius was one of the world's most famous architects and educators, the man who developed multiple dwellings and expanded a new concept of functional beauty in the Bauhaus at Dessau, Germany, from...
Charles L. Kuhn, associate professor of Fine Arts and curator of the Museum since 1930, has tried to soften the strong diet of medieval art in the Museum with exhibitions of modern European work. Last year, designs of the famous Bauhaus school lined the wall. Modern Swiss paintings and a major exhibition of Scandinavian industrial art are planned for this year...
...year-old Gropius was born in Germany and became internationally famous as head of the Bauhaus, an advanced school of design in Dessau. At the Bauhaus students designed everything from heavy machinery to theatrical masks, using the same techniques of space and from which Gropius later had incorporated in Design...