Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students off by teaching them to draw straight lines and freehand letters...
...eight buildings that will compose the new center will be a far cry from the drab structures that make up the housing project. Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, has prepared preliminary drawings for the center, and his firm, The Architects Collaborative, has been appointed architects for the project...
Students themselves played a role in shaping the center's design. Two groups of third-year architecture students made studies of graduate housing last year, and the suggestions of one of the groups provided the basis for Professor Gropius' work...
...plans for the project (model shown above) were drawn up at the Graduate School of Design under the direction of Professor of Architecture Walter Gropius. This is the first such project by the Department of Architecture to earn recognition from University authorities...
...University's building priority list, housing for students has taken tangible form in an architectural project (model shown above) at the School of Design under the guidance of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture...