Letters to Kurt Mumm, 1946-1962.

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Letters to Kurt Mumm, 1946-1962.

Seven letters from Gropius to Mumm written from Cambridge (Mass.) and dated 1946-7, 1955, 1959, and 1962.

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Houghton Library

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Architects Collaborative, Inc.

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Mumm, Kurt,

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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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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 ...