walter gropius]

early career

!1903

studied architecture

Born Berlin !

1914!

1883!

1907

peter behrens

adolf meyer

war & bauhaus

post bauhaus - usa

!1937

!1938

!1945

marcel bruer

mies van der rohe

harvard university

modernism

modern regionalism

international style

“the blending of the genius loci with my modern concept of !

architecture allowed me to create the house that i never !

would have built under the completely different climatic, !

technical and psychological conditions in europe.”

[groupius house

built in lincoln,ma for his family

!1938

main concepts :!

new england architecture + modern regionalism

cubic form

classic “white modernism”

flat roof + smooth surface

but

retaining regional redwood construction

As to my practice,when I built my first house in the us which was my own. !

I made it a point to absorb into my own conception those features of the New England !

architectural tradition that I found still alive and adequate. This fusion of the regional !

spirit with a contemporary approach to design produced a house that I would never !

have built in Europe with its entirely different climatic, technical and psychological !

background. !

—Walter Gropius

!maximum efficiency + simplicity

bauhaus philosophy :

open floor plan

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landscape were carefully planned into civilised space

large windows !

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close connection between interior+ exterior

functional+ aesthetic furniture