Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, West Berlin opened three gleaming, glassy new buildings of its new garment center, will open later this summer its fabulous Building Exhibition, to which the world's greatest architects, from France's Le Corbusier to Brazil's Niemeyer and America's Gropius have each contributed a structure. Mercedes-Benz cars crowd the Autobahnen, and so many workers are buying Kleinstwagen (small one-or two-cylinder cars seating four) that the motorcycle industry is suffering from the competition. Unemployment in West Germany is so small that even a high official in the Labor...
Other members or the department of Architecture joined Giedion in calling the Robie House a "landmark in the history of American architecture." Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, emertius, remarked that "for advanced conception this building impressed me more than any other when I first came to this country...
...Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, emeritus, has proposed that the Harvard and M.I.T. schools of design join forces in planning and constructing a model community of homes and industries in order to demonstrate the practical and aesthetic advantages of careful city-planning...
Delivering the closing address of a two-day conference on urban design, Gropius noted that although scientific progress has brought the nation abundant physical and materialistic well-being, there has as yet been little effort towards producing planned communities with "an attractive and sociable pattern...
...Gropius called attention to the discrepancy between "the high intellectual standards of this University and the haphazard mess that makes up its environment...