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Gropius

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Gro·pi·us  (grp-s), Walter Adolph 1883-1969.
German-born American architect. Founder of the Bauhaus school of design, he exerted tremendous influence on modern architecture.
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Noun1.GropiusGropius - United States architect (born in Germany) and founder of the Bauhaus school (1883-1969)


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At Harvard Gropius introduced him to his Bauhaus colleague and acolyte Marcel Breuer who was to employ him in his New York office on the design of the architect's own house at New Canaan.
Although obscuring the transparency of glass is a rebuke to its most salient property--think of Kandinsky, in want of privacy, whitewashing the glassed-in lobby of his Walter Gropius duplex in Dessau--Booth's nuanced process scrims more than it obscures.
Designed on an "undeveloped site" to resemble an airplane wing by the internationally renowned Walter Gropius, the 2.
 
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