Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination like this is easily inflammable. The brilliant academician may buck under the reins of a lesser known dean, just as the Hudnut-Gropius arrangement flared up into an interdepartmental conflagration. But it is a risk well worth taking. Without a conservative dean, the school will never mend its financial foundations; without an original artist, it will never be worth maintaining as a graduate school. It will be another vocational school, grinding out competent architects instead of a theoritical fountainhead, enlarging knowledge in the fields of architecture and planning...
...when a new dean does take over, he will find a skeleton of a school. Walter Gropius, who led Design to the pinnacle of architectural prominency, left this year, rather than work with a flimsy budget. Many of the other professors have remained to teach part time only, supplementing small salaries with outside contracts. The rest strain under an unbearably heavy load, leaving no time for research or individual attention for the school's students. No new dean can merely step in and pull the school back together again with one decisive motion; its parts have drifted away, some irretrievably...
Besides a 500-beat auditorium, the $700,000 building has rooms for dancing, workshop, snack bar, and loungers. Breuer followed the technique of Walter Gropius, with whom he worked here from...
Moreover, if architects are a combination of Mary and Martha, Harrison is mostly Martha. He has no place among such frontiersmen of architecture as Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan* and Walter Gropius. He is not even sure that he is a modern. A Harrison-styled building is applied modern-the kind that the purists boggle at but John Doe likes...
...Gropius came to the university in 1938. His reputation help draw many outstanding students to the School of Design, which we called "probably the best in the nation" by Time magazine last winter...