Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bauhaus art is self-consciously the art of the Machine Age, the age in which, according to Walter Gropius, the school's founder, the dominant spirit is "the idea of a universal unity in which all opposing forces exist in a state of absolute balance...
Although the Federal Housing Authority approved a loan to Pappas on the basis of plans submitted by Architects Collaborative, the Walter Gropius firm, it is reported that he has since ceased talking to that firm. A reliable source has indicated that the building, if approved again under different architects, might be of light construction for sale soon afterwards...
Speaking in New Orleans in 1959, Architect Walter Gropius, then 76, sadly noted: "I have been 'nobody's baby' during just those years of middle life which normally bring a man to the apex of his career, when seed sown earlier should have come to fruition." True enough, the man who in 1919 founded the Bauhaus, and who later transformed Harvard's Graduate School of Design into one of the finest architectural schools in the U.S., had been asked to build comparatively little. But for once in his life, Walter Gropius turned...
Last week contractors all over the world were preparing bids for the $80 million Baghdad University designed by Gropius and his partners in The Architects Collaborative in Cambridge, Mass. For West Berlin, T.A.C. had plans for a huge housing project (40,880 people) with shopping center and school. In Boston there will be the T.A.C.-designed $25 million Federal Building. In Athens 300 U.S. embassy staffmen were settling into their new columned building on Vassilissis Sofi-as Street. All in all, it seemed as if Walter Gropius had become "everybody's baby...
There is about Gropius himself a certain serenity these days. "My reputation," he says with frankness but not vanity, "has penetrated through. Now these things come to me." Next month the city of Frankfurt will award him its coveted Goethe Prize, which it has given to Thomas Mann, Albert Schweitzer and Sigmund Freud. Next fall the Duke of Edinburgh will present Gropius with the gold medal of Britain's Royal Society of Arts. Will Gropius have time next month to attend the formal opening of the embassy in Athens? "No. I don't think I can make...