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Walter Gropius

1883–1969 · German-American architect and educator · Germany/United States

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Louis Held · Licence: Public domain · Source

Bio

Founder of the Bauhaus and a major force in modern architecture and design education.

Key works

  • Bauhaus Building

THE RETHINK

Walter Gropius helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Walter Gropius changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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