Word: dessau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acknowledged shrine of modern architecture was the famed Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, and Architect Walter Gropius was its high priest. The boxy building with flat roofs and ribbon-glass windows that Gropius built there in 1926 laid down the line architecture was to follow for the next three decades. An exile from Hitler's Germany, Gropius introduced his methods as chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, revolutionized architecture in the U.S., became so firmly planted in architectural history that people were sometimes amazed to find him still a part of the present...
...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...
...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...
...Soviet Germany are in active use, but many others are kept in first-rate condition the year round. Most of the fields are distributed in three thick clusters-one to the north, in Mecklenburg, one ringing Berlin, and the third in the south, in the triangle formed by Dessau, Altenburg and Cottbus. The major fields in Mecklenburg are at Peene-münde and Rechlin-Lärz. Some 200 fighters, a few reconnaissance planes and light bombers are based at Peenemünde, along with 3,000 service troops and 600 airmen, most of them officers...
According to police, Dessau, who is here on a scholarship, was continually worried about finances and final exams. He had "quite good" marks so far this term, his friends stated. The University has placed the entire case in the hands of the police...