Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...book is provokingly stimulating to discussion of it. There are chapters on the history of the new development, functionalism, and the principles of the new style, while there are also discussions as well as photographs of the work of such well known men as Frank Lloyd, Oud, Walter Gropius, Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, and others of all countries...
...Walter Gropius, 49, was born in Alsace but moved to Berlin before he was 20. He fought through the War. afterwards became director of the Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar that developed into the famed Bauhaus at Dessau. The severe Dessau Bauhaus with its horizontal ribbons of windows has been called the cradle of the International Style. In Dessau, too, he showed what he could do in the field of low cost municipal housing...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe worked in the same office with Walter Gropius as a young man. Two years ago he followed Gropius as director of the Bauhaus. Unlike copious Gropius, who has designed innumerable buildings, van der Rohe has actually built little-possibly because of his fondness for luxurious building materials : interior walls of onyx, silk curtains 75 feet long...