Walter Gropius, one of the leaders of the early 20th-century modernist movement in architecture and a founder of one of the world’s most important schools of design, was a cowboy at heart. Before ...

A bust of Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus-Universität (via flickr.com/libaer2002) Cambridge, MA — There’s something that makes Harkness Commons — also known as ...

The humble shoe, literally our lowest item of clothing, must fit us perfectly. Our body protests loudly if it does not. Still, it is taking perfectionism to the extreme to insist that the buildings of ...

Embassy of the United States in Athens, Greece; Courtesy of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations The Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) ...

When amateurs of the arts think of outstanding modern architects, the names most likely to pop into their minds are Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Miës van der Rohe. If they know of ...

“Now, for the first time, when I have reached 70, things look safe for a while,” said Architect Walter Gropius on his birthday last week. “At long last, I am beginning to build much more than was ...

Nowhere else in Germany is as inextricably linked to the Bauhaus as Dessau. Over a century ago, the architect Walter Gropius moved here with his visionary art school. Its influence can still be felt ...

8.4 x 10.8 cm. (3.3 x 4.3 in.) ...

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Sarah Pillsbury Harkness designed the house in 1938 at age 24. Pillsbury Harkness went on to found The Architects Collaborative with six others in 1945. Its principal was Walter Gropius, the ...