Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first impressive rival to the Beaux-Arts school appeared in Germany after the War when Walter Gropius looked around him at a mechanized, technically refined civilization and persuaded the city fathers of Weimar that artistry would have to be combined with it, not sugared over it. By the time his Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar moved to Dessau in 1925, its faculty and students were able to collaborate on a set of workshops and dormitories which have become classics of intelligent architecture. The city of Dessau helped support the school. Its students were given a thorough ground-breaking course in the possibilities...
...that title was as clear as the glass with which its students will be taught to build, because its director was fresh-faced, ingenious Hungarian Designer Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy, a teacher and leading spirit of the famed Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, and its chief adviser was Professor Walter Gropius of Harvard, founder of the old Bauhaus and its director until...
Relinquished by Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...
...head it, the association's astute Executive Director Norma K. Stahle first tried to engage Architect Gropius. Having just accepted Harvard's invitation (TIME, Feb. 8), Gropius declined, suggested that Moholy-Nagy, then working on photography and cinema in London, was "the best man they could get." In response to a flood of cables and letters from Miss Stahle and from Gropius, chunky Moholy-Nagy finally accepted a five-year contract. Last summer, while workmen were knocking down walls in the old Marshall Field mansion and making parlors into draughting rooms, the New Bauhaus director arrived in Chicago...
...them stumped up at the Architectural School. They say that Gropius can't understand it. It's a notched hard wood stick, with a nail stuck in the end and on the nail a propellor. You hold the stick in either hand and with the other rub a second stick, any shape, across the notches...