Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Design 1 embodies the ideas of the Bauhaus and of Walter Gropius--and the students and teachers at the Bauhaus were among the few who seriously considered the problem of living and creating in a mechanized society. They attempted to fuse technology and art, believing that a unifled theory of design should be the link between all forms of work. It is apparent that living in the world of today cannot be done by skulking behind lantern slides of the past or by fleeing into over-specialization. A relatively good stand against this is being made by the General Education...
Architecture professor Kenneth Conant once said that every step Harvard took in education moved the University a hundred years ahead of anyone else. Perhaps this was the case two years ago when the Corporation gave Walter Gropius $25,000 for an experimental course in the theory of design, but Dean Hudnut's recent decision to drop Design 1 is hardly progressive...
...Walter Gropius...
Design 1 is the School of Design's basic course in the theory of design. It embodies the theories of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, and the Bauhaus school...
...When the interest of the students taking the course was reported to the Student Council, the Council polled the members of Planning 1, a course whose students had taken or were taking Design 1, and reported the results to Mr. Gropius and Dean Hudnut," Hall said...