1940's Fashion | "The Curse of Conformity"

Magazine article

By: Walter Gropius

Date: 1958

Source: Gropius, Walter. "The Curse of Conformity." Saturday Evening Post, 1958. Reprinted as "Unity in Diversity." In Apollo in the Democracy: The Cultural Obligations of the Architect. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968, 21–32.

About the Architect: Walter Gropius (1883–1969) was a German American architect and educator. He was the founder of the Bauhaus (literally "house of building") school. His leadership led to a new unified and integrated approach to design education, which supplanted older schools and has dominated the study of design in the twentieth century. After leaving Germany, he became chair of the school of architecture at Harvard University.

Introduction

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