Word: gropius
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...Gropius is long dead and his creation is no monument to him,” said Hernyk Ryniewicz...
...then being dragged back into it by this or that exhibition. People have to be reminded how important an artist he was in his time, on a level with figures who now seem more formidable (if less loved) presences in the history books, such as the architect Walter Gropius and the painter Wassily Kandinsky, who taught at the Bauhaus with him. But the truth is that for at least half the past century, painters, indeed whole movements (those being the days when you had movements), took stuff from Klee, with or without acknowledgment. He was far from being isolated...
...Mies is back, in a big retrospective that opens this week at two New York City museums. "Mies in Berlin," at the Museum of Modern Art, covers the years when he and other European Modernist pioneers, especially Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, slashed away at the history of architecture until they arrived at Platonic refinements of geometric form. "Mies in America," at the Whitney Museum of American Art, picks up the story after he fled the Nazis, eventually to settle in Chicago as head of what became the Illinois Institute of Technology. From there, through his teaching and his flourishing...
...architectural wonder. Or, if Harvard built it on the site of the now-departed Coop Annex, it could, in homage to another of the site's previous occupants, give the College "Bow House." The name could be misread, however, leading to sexual harassment suits after much gropius behavior...Anyway, the big boys and girls in the home office will pick their own name, and, as sure as the day is long, it will be for a wealthy donor. Our money's on Rita Hauser. In the meantime, there's still so much to be done in terms of House design...
...Mark Calculator Series was in development in the Computation Laboratory. When, together with the Graduate Center, the World Tree was inaugurated in 1949, somebody wrote: "Of all the work of Walter Gropius, this cosmic hat rack is the dopius...