Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, when I have reached 70, things look safe for a while," said Architect Walter Gropius on his birthday last week. "At long last, I am beginning to build much more than was possible in the so often unsettled past. The coming years should be the happiest and best fulfilled of my entire life." After 34 years as one of architecture's greatest thinkers and teachers, Walter Gropius was starting what amounts to a brand-new career...
...guests at his birthday party in Chicago got a chance to see what Gropius has been up to since he left Harvard's Graduate School of Design last year (TIME, July 14). The founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus showed 300 friends and colleagues a model of a sheer, glass-walled office building, as clean and functional as a tumbler, which will rise 18 stories near Chicago's Loop. Also on display was an immense aerial view of Chicago's project to redevelop seven square miles of the city's South Side, including a spacious...
Back in Boston, Gropius is the leader of an eight-architect team at work on six modern schools for Massachusetts and New Hampshire; his team is also designing a radical, prismatic-shaped office building in Washington with windows that have what Gropius calls "eyebrows"-steel and glass louvers that push out horizontally as protection against the summer sun. And there are plans for modern housing developments that make Gropius' eyes light up with joy. His team of architects is designing two of them near Boston, one of 30 houses...
...expressed the view that the new Dean would desire to reorganize the school and to express his won interests and views. "This appointment is a clear-cut victory for those favoring the policies of Walter Gropius...
...texture and be completely as allowed in the Public Administration progress. The6JOSEPH HUDNUT came to weak, relatively unknown Design School in 1933. The school's present prestige is largely due to his programs and the faculty he secured. Only during the past few years did the personal feud with Gropius assume such large proportions...