Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...houses of the familiar "modern Colonial" type in a "Town of Tomorrow" planned to cover ten acres at the New York World's Fair; 2) photographs of a community of handsome houses built in a modern style outside Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927 by European Architects van der Rohe, Gropius, Corbusier, Oud. "Tomorrow Looking Toward Yesterday?" queried the Museum's neat display...
...native of Switzerland and 44 years old, Giedion studied the history of art, archaeology and literature in universities in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Following these studies, at Bauhaus Weimar, he came in contact with Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture. In 1925 he returned to Switzerland and took an important part in the fight to introduce modern architecture in that country...
...away at the New Burlington Galleries and immediately began to draw comparable crowds. This was the first solo exhibition of England's five-year-old MARS (Modern Architectural Research) Group, which now numbers about 60 members in the United Kingdom and at least one, Harvard's Walter Gropius...
...Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, has been elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects...
...founders of the modern architecture movement in Europe, Gropius directed the famous Grand Ducal School at Weimar, Germany from 1918 to 1928 and practiced in London for a few years before coming to the University last spring. He is especially noted for his work in industrial and housing projects...