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125th Birthday of Walter Gropius

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Walter Gropius

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125th Birthday of Walter Gropius

Google Celebrating 125th Birthday of Walter Gropius

So who is Walter Gropius

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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus who have earned fame in his era. Along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of “modern” architecture.

Walter Gropius Profile

Name: Walter Adolph Gropius

Nationality: German / American

Birth date: May 18, 1883(1883-05-18)

Birth place: Berlin, Germany

Date of death: July 5, 1969 (aged 86)

Place of death: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Practice name: Peter Behrens (1908–1910)
The Architects’ Collaborative (1945–1969)

Significant buildings: Fagus Factory

Factory Buildings at the Werkbund Exhibition (1914)
Bauhaus
Village College
Gropius House
Harvard Graduate Center
University of Baghdad
John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building
Pan Am Building
Interbau
Wayland High School
Embassy of the United States in Athens

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