the background of Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius 

A briefing about Walter Gropius:

    Walter Gropius is a German architect born May 18, 1883, in Berlin. He is the one who found about the Bauhaus school existence after being with the Deutscher Werkbund (designers'
community) When the German government asked German architect to lead a new school, the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919, he contributed to the development of modern architecture in the 20th century. With his 1923 work Idee und Aufbau des staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar ("Idea and Structure of the Weimar State Bauhaus"), Gropius established the Bauhaus school of design and helped shape modern architecture and the applied arts.

- Walter's iconic designs:

• MetLife building in 1963:

                    

The MetLife Building, also known as 200 Park Avenue and originally the Pan Am Building, is a skyscraper in New York City's Midtown Manhattan area, just north of Grand Central Terminal. The MetLife Building, which was created by Richard Roth, Walter Gropius, and Pietro Belluschi and finished in 1962, is 808 feet (246 m) tall and has 59 storeys. With 2.4 million square feet (220,000 m2) of useable office space, it was billed as the largest commercial office space by square footage in the world when it was opened. The MetLife Building is still among the top 100 tallest structures in the country as of November 2022.

- The Bauhaus movement during and after the Nazi regime: 

    He and Ise Frank, his second wife, whom he had married in 1923, secretly fled Germany for exile in England through Italy in 1934 since they did not support the Nazi dictatorship. The Bauhaus was shut down by the Nazi administration in 1933. Collaboration with the architect Maxwell Fry during Gropius' brief stay in England culminated in their significant project, Village College at Impington, Cambridgeshire (1936).

   Walter Gropius finally makes it to arrive to Cambridge, in order to become a professor at Harvard university with an idea of spreading and introducing the Bauhaus philosophy of design around into the curriculum. Although his is an architecture and he had a potential of teaching architecture in the Harvard university, he became popular on teaching modern design among students.