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A stunning visual biography of the life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and one of the world's most influential architects

This illustrated biography tells the story of Gropius's life, beginning with his shattering experiences in World War One, his turbulent marriage to the notorious Alma Mahler, the establishment of the Bauhaus, and the tragic death of their daughter Manon.

After Gropius's agonized decision to leave Nazi Germany in 1933, the book explores his life in exile in London and then his move to America in 1937, where he lived and worked until his death in 1969.

Features more than 375 illustrations including letters, telegrams, sketches, drawings, photographs, posters, brochures, and other ephemera. The authors present the life of Walter Gropius as not just a key figure of 20th-century architecture, but as an extraordinarily generous person - a connector, protector, and benefactor who improved the lives and careers of all those with whom he came into contact.

This is the first comprehensive illustrated biography of one of Modern architecture&#

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Walter Gropius

German-American architect (1883–1969)

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-born American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School,^[1] who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar and taught there for several years, becoming known as a leading proponent of the International Style.^[2]^[3] Gropius emigrated from Germany to England in 1934 and from England to the United States in 1937, where he spent much of the rest of his life teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In the United States he worked on several projects with Marcel Breuer and with the firm The Architects Collaborative, of which he was a founding partner. In 1959, he won the AIA Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture.

Early life and family

Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber (1855–1933), daughter of the Prussian politician Georg Scharnweber&

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Walter Gropius, an émigré architect whose International Style and social insight helped define the aesthetics of the 20th century, would undoubtedly grasp and give vital form to the 21st century if he were alive to see it today. The strength of Gropius's vision lay in his humanistic ability to comprehend the essentials of the world in which he lived and to design the basic forms and metaphors that would give meaning to those essentials.

In the prewar Germany that Gropius inhabited for the first half of his life, Sigmund Freud, a fellow intellectual émigré, had defined the essentials of human life as "work" and "love." In the contemporary milieu of Gropius's Bauhaus, one might make the analogy of Freud's theories of "work" to Gropius's theories of the machine and of Freud's "love" to Gropius's concepts of the house and housing. These essential elements of life were given architectural expression by Gropius in the factory and in the housing projects for workers, respectively. Gropius modeled the total environment for the common man, from the public place in which h