Walters gropius s biography

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School.^[1] Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright are usually called the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.

Walter gropius famous works

He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919).^[2] Gropius was also an important architect of the International Style.^[3]

Legacy

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Gropius is popular from both his buildings and the district of Gropiusstadt in Berlin. In 1959, he was given the AIA Gold Medal. In the early 1990s, multiple books called The Walter Gropius Archive were published.

These books talked about his entire career. On May 17, 2008, Google Doodle celebrated Walter Gropius' 125th birthday.^[4] In 1996, Gropius' Bauhaus Building and the Master Houses were made UNESCO World Heritage Sites.^[5]

Popular buildings

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• 1906 granary