Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, some of his best students work with Gropius in his own firm, the Architects Collaborative, which designed the Graduate Center two years...
...when Hudnut realized that Gropius was receiving all the credit for the school's success and that the master was obscuring him more and more, it was natural for the dean to resent the other's presence. At times he would make statements such as "learning should be a matter of experience rather than purely a matter of authority," and everyone knew, of course, who the authority," and everyone knew, of course who the authority was. But for the most part, the faculty reports, the Gropius Hudmnt battle was more a cold war than anything else, creating at times...
Even without direct contact with the entire student body, Gropius did give Design a point of view. He was an innovator in educational techniques and he backed his own theories of architecture. Many say that Hudnut, on the other hand, never actually made his philosophy of art clear. His disagreements with Gropius seemed to most completely personal...
...animosity. Hudnut came to the school in 1933 with a distinguished reputation, not as a great innovator, but as a sound thinker and writer. He was responsible for integrating the three separate departments, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning into a single School of Desing. He brought Gropius to the school in 1937, when Gropius was one of the world's most famous architects and educators, the man who developed multiple dwellings and expanded a new concept of functional beauty in the Bauhaus at Dessau, Germany, from...
...Gropius, while at the University, encouraged his students to work on construction projects during the summers. The "Fundamentals of Design" course, which for two-years was a requirement in the school, was the further attempt to familiarize students with materials. By working with colors, metals, and organic media, Design students would begin to understand the builder's problems. He would learn what materials and colors snit certain constructions, and which figures are the best for particular forms of space...