Who was Walter Gropius? What did Walter Gropius do besides architecture? Who influenced Walter Gropius's design for the Bauhaus? What school of design did Walter Gropius establish? Where did Walter Gropius study? What influenced Le Corbusier?
When design history is merely perceived as established knowledge about the past and fails to engage in dialogue with reality or individual interaction, it often struggles to inspire students' agency in learning and willingness to deep involvement in research. Alternative design history, howeve...
Walter Gropius(1883-1969). Notable works: Dessau Bauhaus School (1925–1932); Gropius House (1937), Michael Reese Hospital (1945–1959); and John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building (1963–1966). Walter Gropius was also involved in furniture design but was not its primary focus. Le Corbusier...
What is the architecture and design of David Rockwell? What does futurism art glorify? What were the distinctive characteristics of Renaissance architecture? What art period was futurism a part of? What did Walter Gropius do besides architecture?
opening in early April; a few clicks behind, theBauhaus Museum Dessaufollowed suit in early September. A third project, the much-delayed extension to Walter Gropius’s 1979Bauhaus- Archiv/Museum für Gestaltungin Berlin, did not manage to keep pace and isn’t expected to open for a couple ...
Swiss designers did not create this high-modernist approach out of nowhere. Rather, they looked to precedents at the intersection of art and design from the period spanning roughly 1914 and 1939. These included the movement of Suprematism and Constructivism in Russia, De Stijl in the Netherlands,...
(coquille) of empty etiquette, an embrace of outdated moral codes. Chastising even hisavant-garderevolutionaries, he asked why they did not embrace a new cadre of intellectuals who were up to date with technological advances as he was. Unlike the cool, rational Walter Gropius, whose writings ...
The other notable American Brutalist architect of the time,Paul Rudolph, sought toreject and react against the prevailing International Style of the time, which is somewhat ironic because he was trained at Harvard under Walter Gropius. According to architectural historian William J.R. Curtis, Rudolph...
We did not begin the creative process by talking about the bottom line. —Bernard Arnault 83 I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. —Akira Toriyama 83
The sleek 1966 city hall by local architecture star Jack West impressed me with its elegance, as did the 1960 William Rupp and Joe Farrell building that's the headquarters of Architecture Sarasota, which has an exhibition space that Russell manages year-round. I was dazzled by Arquitectonica's...