Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Design 1 will be discontinued at the end of this term, Joseph Hudnut 09, Dean of the Faculty of Design, disclosed yesterday. The School of Design's basic course in the theory of design, it embodies the ideas of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, and the Bauhaus school...
Following Hudnut's announcement, Gropius and Richard Filipowaki, instructor in the course, issued statements decrying the action...
...disagreeing with Hudnut Gropius said. "Although my whole faculty is in favor of the course and almost all the architecture schools have such a course after the model of the Bauhaus, here it is being discontinued because the dean is against it and the means are not available to keep it going...
...Gropius stated that President Conant gave him the money for the course two years ago and "it is a pity that after it has been built up and been so successful that the teachers have to be given notice...
Much remains for his graduates to accomplish, Gropius says. In the U.S., "you go along a big street that is lined for miles & miles with filling stations and restaurants that have absolutely no relationship to the setting, a hodgepodge of ugliness ... Or some suburban developer comes along, cutting down the trees, bulldozing the site and befouling our habitat." A purist with a sad, cold eye, Gropius believes that the main reason for the architectural ugliness he finds everywhere is "inertia of the heart. Man still clings to some visible reminder of Grandpa...