Reminiscences of Walter Gropius : lecture, 1961.

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Reminiscences of Walter Gropius : lecture, 1961.

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Influence of technical inventions and social developments on architectural field; establishment of Bauhaus School of Design; need for cooperative architectural, environmental planning work; projects of the Architects Collaborative, including University of Baghdad, United States Embassy in Athens, Gropius town in Germany.

Transcript: 32 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...