Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, and one of the designers of the new Graduate Student Center, urged American colleges to stop "reviving revivals" in designs of their new campus buildings last night. He was speaking before the Harvard Engineering Society's dinner meeting at the Harvard Club...
Under the leadership of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture and internationally known leader in the development of modern architecture, the architects have concentrated on designing buildings which will give the greatest comfort and utility for the money spent...
...Gropius and others in the Architects Collaborative teach part-time in that graduate school, and the school it-self, under the leadership of Dean Joseph Hudnut and with several well-known architects on its faculty, has become a leading force in developing and spreading this new architecture, a prime example of which it the rising Graduate Center
...named Marcel Breuer, who made himself known 24 years ago by inventing tubular steel chairs (in Germany's longtime Mecca of modern architects, the Bauhaus school of design). Architect Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937, taught for nine years at Harvard under his old Bauhaus boss, Walter Gropius, before setting up in business in Manhattan...
...exhibitions Kuhn has organized concerns the methods and achievements of the Bauhaus, a German school of design founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Gropius is at present a professor of Architecture at Harvard and was one of the designers of the projected Graduate Center...