Fresno Burns Building's boring looks belie colorful history May 10, 2009
Bauhaus was a school of trend-setting artists started by architect Walter Gropius in 1919 in Weimer, the German capital. The Bauhaus architects' style wouldn't be called "International" until 1932. (Fresno Bee)
Chair design in Melbourne Mar 5, 2009
The chair continued at the frontline, as the worlds political skyline altered irretrievably after World War I. In 1919, German architect Walter Gropius started the Bauhaus school of modern design, training students to integrate art and technology to develop functional designs for mass production. The faculty head, Marcel Breuer (Germany/US ), designed a cantilever steel tube chair, inspired by a bicycle frame. (India Times)
Bauhaus Furniture Design at Knoll Mar 1, 2008
Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer were working out of offices in Boston, where Florence Schust was apprenticing when she met husband-to-be and business partner Hans Knoll. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he taught and greatly influenced Florence, who later said he d had a profound effect on my design approach and the clarification of design. (Suite101.com)
A clear modern vision Feb 17, 2008
But the word is also the name of a style that flourished in the United States from about 1940 to 1975, beginning with the arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, at Harvard in 1937, where he helped train a generation of modern architects including Johnson, I.M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, and numerous others. New Canaan was a hotbed of early modernism in the 1940s and 1950s, as were Boston suburbs like Lincoln. (Boston Globe)
Tale of a teapot Dec 17, 2007
It has the fetishistic allure not only of having been made inside the Bauhaus, but of belonging to its golden age in the mid-1920s, when the director, Walter Gropius, had fired the mystical Johannes Itten, and hired Moholy to establish the school as a cradle of the modern movement. The MT49 evokes the optimism of that era. (International Herald Tribune)
Shaped into greatness Dec 3, 2007
The building in question was the Bauhaus, the German art and design school designed in the mid-1920s by the architect Walter Gropius in the industrial city of Dessau. On his visit in 1929, Johnson, who grew up to become a famous architect, was equally entranced by the work of the students: so much so that he adopted Bauhaus habits, like typing solely in lower case letters. (International Herald Tribune)
Nakashima: Two new shows celebrate famed modern furniture makers Aug 25, 2007
In the 1930s, Mr. Nakashima spent two weeks as a student at Harvard, where German architect Walter Gropius and his colleague, Marcel Breuer, held sway with their Bauhaus theory of design. Unimpressed, Mr. Nakashima left to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Chairs sitting pretty as a design icon, but for how long? Aug 12, 2007
During the first half of the 20th century, the most influential writing on design was invariably by architects, notably William Lethaby, Hermann Muthesius, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. Like most architects, if they designed an object, it was typically a piece of furniture, usually a chair. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* Brazil's colossus of concrete Aug 5, 2007
"Walter Gropius came to see me at my house at Canoas above Rio. I designed it in a sequence of natural curves to flow in and out of the existing landscape. He said, it's beautiful, but it can't be mass-produced. As if I had intended such a thing! What an idiot.". Today, Niemeyer lives in what he calls "an ordinary apartment" in Copacabana close to his studio. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Norman Fletcher, 89; cofounded influential architects group Jun 6, 2007
The firm's biggest name was Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus art and architecture school in Germany who was teaching at Harvard. Pioneering a collaborative approach to design, the eight partners took equal salaries and met each week to discuss projects, rotating as leader. (Boston Globe)
Architecture at MoMA: Another look May 16, 2007
Essentially, they defined what came to be known as the International Style by featuring the work of European modernists like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and J.J.P. Oud. In most cases, they selected buildings with radically simplified forms and an utter rejection of ornament. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Things to do today May 13, 2007
HUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART: Portfolio 2007 student art exhibit and Joseph A. Smith: Walter Gropius Master Art Exhibit both close today. Hours: noon to 5 p.m. 2033 McCoy Road. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Designed so you'll walk this way May 13, 2007
The first new building on what was to become the Brattle Walk was a headquarters for the architecture firm founded by Walter Gropius. It was finished back in 1968. (Boston Globe)
All in the family May 11, 2007
Modern-minded visitors might prefer the Gropius House, built and inhabited in 1938 by Walter Gropius, the founder of Bauhaus architecture. His house is a white box once called "The Big Marshmallow" by neighbors, but it's a beautiful box, with delightful views of the woods and a delicate Japanese garden. (Boston Globe)
Clay Center gets big donation Apr 6, 2007
The Huntington Museum of Arts Walter Gropius Master Artist three-day workshops, named for the famous architect who designed the museums 1970 addition, has a big reputation and draws artists from several states, she said. In other Clay Center news, income has lagged behind expectations for sponsorships and foundation gifts in the fiscal years first eight months, Chuck Avampato told board members. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Thoroughly modern Mondrian for Corcoran (Ann Geracimos and Kevin Chaffee) Mar 16, 2007
Upstairs in rooms reconfigured for the show, guests meandered through gallery after gallery admiring works by Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, among many others. One of the most unusual was the "Frankfurt Kitchen," the first built-in modern kitchen manufactured in mass quantity. (Washington Times, DC)
The Palace of Soviets Feb 17, 2007
The Italian Palace of Soviets: Ancient Rome Meets Stalinist Monument. The winning design that never materialized is a quintessential example of Stalinist monumentality, and the exhibition reveals the project s Italian influence in its gigantism reminiscent of ancient Rome. (Suite101.com)
The Forgotten Pioneer of Corporate Design Jan 30, 2007
Bruce begins his story with Noyes's early years and his education at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where the young architect came under the influence of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, who fled Germany in 1937, bringing the modernist ideals of the Bauhaus School with them. But the author moves quickly to the early years of Noyes's career when, after a brief stint working in the office of his mentors, he became the first curator of design at New York's Museum of Modern Art. (MSNBC -- Business)
* A dilapidated testament to a once-thriving community Jan 28, 2007
Though considered a long shot, campaigners say it is a last hope to raise funds to shore up a century-old site where crumbling headstones sit among mausolea by famed Bauhaus architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. "The unique importance of Weissensee is not only its remarkable artistic treasures but also its inextricable link with the history of Berlin's Jews," said Hermann Simon, director of the Centrum Judaicum foundation for Jewish history and culture. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
