Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friday for Walter Gropius, former chairman of the department of Architecture and spiritual leader of Harvard's graphic gurus...
...Walter Gropius it was his 85th birthday. He grabbed hands and grinned his way through 300 friends and fans all wearing flourescent orange and day-glo green buttons reading "Vote Grope...
...unusual balance (American design schools are not very good?) that reason isn't evident to the student. To him, it seems possible that importing instructors Europe might be another way of lending legitimacy to the department. But part of this might be due to the lingering influence of Walter Gropius, former dean of the Design School, and the Bauhaus school of thought...
...uninhibited critic, Hudnut dismissed the Jefferson Memorial as "an egg on a pantry shelf in the midst of a geometric Sahara." His passion was for the functional line of modern architecture, a style he popularized by bringing to the U.S. such Bauhaus architects as Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, whom he installed as chairman of his school's architectural department...
...dean, Hudnut brought to the Harvard Faculty Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, both important members of Germany's Bauhaus Institute. Hudnut worked with these men to gain acceptance for Bauhaus techniques in America...