Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revival of Gropius...
...latter course appears to be an attempt to revive on a small scale a double credit course formerly given by Walter Gropius, also called Design Fundamentals. Gropius' course, generally known as Design 1, was abandoned in June, 1952, after two years, because it required too much work from the students and too much money from the School...
...joined the Communist party's 200-odd Red front organizations." But when it comes time to name names he can only come up with 21; and a politically tame 21 they are too, including Gordon W. Allport, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Criminologist Sheldon Glueck, Arthur N. Holcombe, Walter Gropius and William E. Hocking...
...procession of contrasts. Though the seven collegiate houses (i.e., the upperclassmen's living quarters) are uniformly Georgian, rising into golden spires out of the clutter of crooked streets, Harvard has sampled the whole history of U.S. architecture, from colonial to Bui-finch, to H. H. Richardson, to Walter Gropius. The unofficial part of the Yard-the shops and stores that rim it-are a jumble all their own. Bookshops and soda fountains jockey for position; haircuts, haberdashery and history are all for sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled out pills to Longfellow and Emerson; there...
...could never manage romantic old graveyards"). He denounced many a U.S. public building: the National Gallery was a "death mask of an ancient culture," the Jefferson Memorial "an egg on a pantry shelf in . . . a geometric Sahara," Grant's Tomb a "ponderous, huge monster." With Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he turned Harvard into the top school of modern architecture...