1. free of untruths or ornamentation.”
“We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws,
free of untruths or ornamentation.”
Walter Gropius

2. Walter Adolph Gropius May 18, 1883, Berlin, Ger. 1905-1907
Berlin–Charlottenburg
1906
Farm labourers’ cottages in Pomerania
1904–1905
Saw military service
1903–1904
Technical institutes in Munich
1907
Peter Behrens in Berlin.
Left Behrens, and developed a clear commitment to promoting his ideas.
1911
The Fagus Works at Alfeld-an-der-Leine
1919
Public Bauhaus Weimar
1915
Married a widow, Alma Mahler.
1914
Designed the model office and factory buildings in Cologne

3. Director of the Bauhaus
Director of the Bauhaus
Designed a portion of a housing colony in Berlin
1928
Resigned as director of the Bauhaus
School building and faculty housing at the Bauhaus Dessau
1923
Married with Ise Frank
1936
Village College at Impington, Cambridgeshire
1934
Left Germany secretly via Italy for exile in England
1933
Hitler’s government closed the Bauhaus
Died July 5, 1969, Boston, Mass., U.S
TAC
1946
chairman of the department, Harvard University
1938
1937
Gropius arrived in Cambridge

4. Walter Adolph Gropius - Architecture
Gropius believed their house could embody architectural qualities similar to those practiced today, such as simplicity, economy, and aesthetic beauty.
He used the approach developed at the Bauhaus. Gropius house was influential in bringing International Modernism to the U.S.
Gropius House
Fagus Factory
Bauhaus Dessau

5. Walter Adolph Gropius - Architecture
Gropius believed their house could embody architectural qualities similar to those practiced today, such as simplicity, economy, and aesthetic beauty.
He used the approach developed at the Bauhaus. Gropius house was influential in bringing International Modernism to the U.S.
Gropius House
Fagus Factory
Bauhaus Dessau

6. Walter Adolph Gropius - Furniture
Walter Gropius designed this armchair in 1920 after the opening of the Bauhaus school of design in Dessau.
This chair demonstrates many key elements of Bauhaus design. For example it is designed to feel like it doesn’t take up much space, just like the building.
Its arms and base are such that the light can shine through it, creating the illusion that you have more space (or it takes up less space) than it actually does.
Just as in the building, the shapes represent the different functions of the particular piece.

7. Sources Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Bauhaus Online:
art DIRECTORY:
about home:
visual-arts-cork:
Wikipedia:
"Let us strive for, conceive and create the new building of the future that will unite every discipline, architecture and sculpture and painting, and which will one day rise heavenwards from the million hands of craftsmen as a clear symbol of a new belief to come."