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20th Century Architecture – Modernism: Key Buildings Information + Images
post updated 3 Apr 2021
Walter Gropius Building News
Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, USA : Demolition of Walter Gropius Buildings
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Michael Reese Hospital
Major 20th Century Architecture by Walter Gropius
Buildings by architect Walter Gropius, chronological:
Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany, Europe
Date built: 1911
Werkbund Exhibition – office & factory, Cologne, Germany
Date built: 1914
Bauhaus School, Dessau, Germany
Date built: 1932
The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
Date built: 1937
Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Date built: 1950
Pan Am Building, Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA
Date built: 1963
Buildings by this Modern Architect
Key Modern Buildings by this Architect – Selection
Bauhaus Building & Masters’ Houses, Dessau, Germany: Competition
Date built: 2008
photo from Bauhaus
Bauhaus Buildings
Berlin Archive Museum of Design, Berlin, Germany
Designed 1964 ; built 1976-79
photo © Adrian Welch
Bauhaus-Archiv Building
Interbau Apartment House, Berlin, Germany
Date built: 1957
Design by the Bauhaus founder with TAC with Wils Elbert
photo © AW
Hansaviertel Buildings by various celebrated 20th Century architects
Key Buildings by Walter Gropius
Buildings by this architect, chronological:
Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany
Dates built: 1910-11
aka Faguswerk – shoe lace factory, famous Modern building
Werkbund Exhibition – office & factory, Cologne, Germany
Date built: 1914
Monument to the March Dead – war sculpture, Weimar, Germany
Dates built: 1919-20
Sommerfeld House, Berlin, Germany
Date built: 1921
Bauhaus School, Dessau, Germany
Dates built: 1925-32
Village College, Impington, Cambridge, south east England, UK
Date built: 1936
The Gropius House, 68 Baker Bridge Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
Dates built: 1937-38
Walter Gropius home
Aluminium City Terrace Housing, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA
Dates built: 1942-44
Peter Thacher Junior High School, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA
1948
Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1949-50
Interbau Apartments, Hansaviertel, Berlin, Germany
1957
Design: with Wils Ebert
University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
1957-60
Wayland High School, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
1961
United States of America Embassy, Athens, Greece
1959-61
Design with Pericles A. Sakellarios
Pan Am Building, Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA
1958-63
Design: with Emery Roth & Sons and Pietro Belluschi
This tall building in Midtown has since been renamed the Metlife Building.
John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1963-66
Tower East, Shakre Heights, Ohio, USA
1967-69
Unbuilt Design
Chicago Tribune Tower Competition entry, Illinois, USA
Date of design: 1922
House Klee/Kandinsky, Dessau, Germany
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Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent, England, UK
Date built: 1937
Design: Gropius and Fry
This property is for sale – Wood House, Shipbourne.
The property is Grade 2 listed, attributed to Gropius and Fry, built 1937; final construction was completed by Fry after Gropius moved to the USA.
More information about Walter Gropius architect online soon
Location: Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Walter Gropius Architect Practice Information
The Bauhaus founder
Known for functionalist Modernist buildings – form follows function
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius, German architect
1883-1969
born Berlin, Germany; died Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Bauhaus
Took over the Weimar Bauhaus in 1915 after Van de Velde was asked to leave
The Architect
Walter collaborated briefly with architect Marcel Breuer, who went to London in 1935. Gropius and Breuer quickly moved to America where Gropius set up TAC – The Architecture Collaborative, joined by the brilliant engineer George Patten. Marcel taught with Gropius at Harvard. Gropius ran a studio in New York. Most of his work was in the United States of America but with some building projects in Europe, notably France.
Career
Architect in Peter Behrens office (alongside Mies & Corb), Germany
1908-10
Gropius & Meyer, Germany
1910-45
Berlin architecture practice with Adolf Meyer
The Architects’ Collaborative – TAC, USA
1945-69
Family Life
1st Wife: Alma Mahler, widow of Gustav Mahler; divorced 1920
Their daughter, Manon, died aged 18
2nd Wife Ise Frank, married 1923
Adopted child – Beate Gropius
Relevant Architecture Links
AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, Germany
Date built: 1908-09
Design: Peter Behrens
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Berlin Turbine building – AEG Turbine Factory by Peter Behrens
Walter was a world-famous Modern architect, and his work has parallels to that of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.
Haus am Horn, Weimar – World’s First Bauhaus Building
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