2. WALTER GROPIUS
May 18 1883 – July 5 1969
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect And Interior
Designer.
He was the founder of the Bauhaus School.
He works with the great masters of Modern Architecture like
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright.
3. • In 1913, Gropius published an article about "The
Development of Industrial Buildings," which
included about a dozen photographs of factories
and grain elevators in North America.
• In 1919, Gropius was involved in the Glass
Chain utopian expressionist correspondence
under the pseudonym .
• Usually more notable for his functionalist
approach, the "Monument to the March Dead,"
designed in 1919 and executed in 1920,
indicates that expressionism was an influence on
him at that time.
5. • He was a GERMAN ARCHITECT, but he also worked in other countries
like ENGLAND , USA , IRAQ.
• 1960 the Gropius stadt building complex, Berlin, Germany
• 1936 Village College, Impington, Cambridge, England
• 1937 The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
• 1957–1960 University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
VILLAGE COLLEGE, IMPINGTON,
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND
6. AWARDS
• AIA GOLD MEDAL
• PRITZKER PRIZE
AIA GOLD MEDAL PRITZKER PRIZE
