free of untruths or ornamentation.” “We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.” Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Gropius May 18, 1883, Berlin, Ger. 1905-1907 Berlin–Charlottenburg 1906 Farm labourers’ cottages in Pomerania 1904–1905 Saw military service 1903–1904 Technical institutes in Munich 1907 Peter Behrens in Berlin. 1910-1914 Left Behrens, and developed a clear commitment to promoting his ideas. 1911 The Fagus Works at Alfeld-an-der-Leine 1919 Public Bauhaus Weimar 1915 Married a widow, Alma Mahler. 1914 Designed the model office and factory buildings in Cologne

Director of the Bauhaus 1919-1928 Director of the Bauhaus Designed a portion of a housing colony in Berlin 1929-1930 1928 Resigned as director of the Bauhaus 1925-1926 School building and faculty housing at the Bauhaus Dessau 1923 Married with Ise Frank 1936 Village College at Impington, Cambridgeshire 1934 Left Germany secretly via Italy for exile in England 1933 Hitler’s government closed the Bauhaus Died July 5, 1969, Boston, Mass., U.S TAC 1946 chairman of the department, Harvard University 1938 1937 Gropius arrived in Cambridge

Walter Adolph Gropius - Architecture Gropius believed their house could embody architectural qualities similar to those practiced today, such as simplicity, economy, and aesthetic beauty. He used the approach developed at the Bauhaus. Gropius house was influential in bringing International Modernism to the U.S. Gropius House Fagus Factory Bauhaus Dessau

Walter Adolph Gropius - Architecture Gropius believed their house could embody architectural qualities similar to those practiced today, such as simplicity, economy, and aesthetic beauty. He used the approach developed at the Bauhaus. Gropius house was influential in bringing International Modernism to the U.S. Gropius House Fagus Factory Bauhaus Dessau

Walter Adolph Gropius - Furniture Walter Gropius designed this armchair in 1920 after the opening of the Bauhaus school of design in Dessau. This chair demonstrates many key elements of Bauhaus design. For example it is designed to feel like it doesn’t take up much space, just like the building. Its arms and base are such that the light can shine through it, creating the illusion that you have more space (or it takes up less space) than it actually does. Just as in the building, the shapes represent the different functions of the particular piece.

Sources Encyclopaedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Gropius Bauhaus Online: http://bauhaus-online.de/en/atlas/personen/walter-gropius   art DIRECTORY: http://www.walter-gropius.com/ about home: http://architecture.about.com/od/greatarchitects/p/waltergropius.htm visual-arts-cork: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/architecture/walter-gropius.htm Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius "Let us strive for, conceive and create the new building of the future that will unite every discipline, architecture and sculpture and painting, and which will one day rise heavenwards from the million hands of craftsmen as a clear symbol of a new belief to come."