Word: dessau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Gropius, 49, was born in Alsace but moved to Berlin before he was 20. He fought through the War. afterwards became director of the Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar that developed into the famed Bauhaus at Dessau. The severe Dessau Bauhaus with its horizontal ribbons of windows has been called the cradle of the International Style. In Dessau, too, he showed what he could do in the field of low cost municipal housing...
...Dessau, Germany, the Junkers factory is completing its first "stratosphere" plane, a low-wing monoplane of 40 ft. wingspread with a sealed cabin and a special air compressor to permit the engine to operate at altitudes greater than 7 mi. Claimed speed: 1,000 m.p.h
...knew as much about the cosmic ray as Piccard could learn at firsthand. All told, his most important contribution was the proof that men can live in an airtight container. Those findings might be useful to the men who are building a stratosphere airplane in the Junkers plant at Dessau...
...modernists there is the current exhibition of the Harvard Society of Contemporary Art that will close Saturday. It consists mainly of the works of a colony of Germans known as the Bauhaus, and contains besides photographs of the very modern living quarters of the community, which is situated in Dessau near Berlin, a collection of paintings and drawings by members of the colony...
...Branhaus is an experiment in community living, started by Walter Cropis, and situated in Dessau, a small town near Berlin. The community is chiefly interested in healthful and modern architecture, and has been helpful in the erection of numerous laborers' cottages built in a style that combines serviceability with lightness of form...