Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architect Noyes, 42, has spent 15 years looking for ways to make modern living pleasanter. After getting his master's degree from Harvard ('38) in the days when Gropius and Marcel Breuer were revolutionizing the staid architecture department with their Bauhaus ideas, Noyes decided to tackle the whole field of design from industry to houses. He went to work for Designer Norman Bel Geddes, reshaping everything from jukeboxes to radios...
...housing of tomorrow that excites Gropius most. "In the future," he says, "the artist is to be the brother of the engineer and manufacturer . . . What we need is a unity . . . An old New England town, with its white buildings, has a unity and kinship, but when you look closely, every single one of these white buildings differs from all the rest. A house with 100,000 exact duplicates is not the answer . . . The machine must be adapted to the individual.. . . Machines can cut costs and improve quality by making millions of prefabricated parts, and yet the houses built from...
Lean and clear-eyed, Walter Gropius acts like a young man in a hurry. He has plans to visit South Africa, Chile, Australia. "I am going to Brazil later this year, and will visit Japan next year, but much more than to travel," says Gropius. "I want to work...
...Walter Gropius, Professor of Architecture, emeritus, will receive an honorary degree from the University on June 11, the CRIMSON learned last night...
Contacted at his home last night, Gropius refused to comment for publication...