Architecture and Design in the Age of Science
Pamphlet
By: Walter Gropius
Date: June 1952
Source: Gropius, Walter. Architecture and Design in the Age of Science. New York: Spiral Press, 1952, 1–3, 4–5, 6–7, 8, 9.
About the Author: Walter Adolf Georg Gropius (1883–1969) was born in Berlin. After studying architecture as an apprentice, he opened his own practice in 1910. He was later appointed to reorganize the Weimar Art School, which he reopened in 1919 as the Staatliches Bauhaus. In 1934, he immigrated to England and later to the United States, where he headed Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He became a U.S. citizen in 1944 and worked in architecture until his death in 1969.
Introduction
The "international style" of Walter Gropius and others swept away the previous generation's shallow caricatures of classical styles, in an attempt to give form to the ideal of human freedom in a...
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1930's Fashion Primary Sources
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