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WALTER GROPIUS

GROP IUS HOUSE

WALTER GROP IUS

o Born 1883 in Berlin, Germany.o Founder of German design school known as Bauhaus.o Most influential architect of 20th century.o Designed Gropius house as his family home on 1938.

o 1903 and 1907 in Munich and Berlin o 1908 to 1910 - worked for Peter Behrens o 1910 - own architecture practice in Berlin -joined Henry van de Velde to counter standardization of design and promote individual creativity. -member of the Deutscher Werkbund o 1911 - Gropius designed the Fagus Works in Alfeldo 1919 - the "State Bauhaus", which was founded in Weimar o 1927 - Walter Gropius gave up his position as director o 1933 - Bauhaus still existed until this year o 1938 - Walter Gropius brought Marcel Breuer to Harvard and founded a joint architecture practice with himo 1939 - With Breuer Walter Gropius also built the Pennsylvania Pavilion for New York World's Fair o 1946 - founded "The Architects Collaborative" (TAC)

PH ILOSOPHY

-Architects, sculpturers, painters, we must all return to the crafts!

“Architecture begins when engineering ends.”

“to build is to create event”

BAUHAUS PH ILOSOPHY

Every aspect of the house and its surrounding landscape was planned for

maximum efficiency and simplicity

INTERNAT IONAL STYLE

o Simple geometry, often rectangularo modern material like steel and glasso Smooth surfaces with primary colourso Linear and horizontal elements

FAGUS FACTORY, Germany

BAUHAUS, Germany

HAUS AM HORN, Germany

GROPIUS HOUSE, Lincoln

CONCEPT

o hybrid of traditional New England aesthetic and the modernist teachings of the Bauhaus.o S I M P L I C I T Y A N D O R D E R prevailed under European influences o G E O M E T R Y - free beauty and decorationo ORGANIC L A N D S C A P E - Gropius wanted the outdoor space around the home to be an equally "civilized area”o geometry, and aesthetic beauty determined by materials rather than applied ornamentation

Landscape Stone structure

Located on a hill

o No artificial symmetry, but free functional arrangement for the room o Ground Floor access is diagonal.o Living and dining are next to the centre of the house.

o Uses hollow glass block to give privacy to the lobby.o Porch is located one space covering the porch with stone flooring.o Has two levels with stone structure in the basement, wood, bricks.o From this level starts a spiral staircase

o modernist aesthetic on the local materialso combined with the tinted ribbon windowso flat roof

INTER IOR