Walter gropius biography architecture pdf

Walter Gropius: The History and Legacy of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany Kent Boyer Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe Fall 2013 Boyer, Walter Gropius Far more than a celebrated and gifted modernist architect, Walter Gropius (1883‐ 1969) was a respected and visionary artist/educator who, at the beginning of the Weimar Republic, developed an artist education curriculum and community known as the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany.

Gropius ultimately spent over 30 years of his professional career educating architects and artists; first in the founding and administration of the Bauhaus from 1919 to his resignation in 1928, and then at Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1937 to his retirement in 1952.

Looking backwards to the Bauhaus era – an experiment in art education that mirrored exactly the lifespan of the Weimar Republic (from 1919 to 1933) ‐ with the historical knowledge of what came afterward is an int