Description: Walter Gropius : 1: the Promoter of a New Form, Hardcover by Gossel, Peter (EDT); Lupfer, Gilbert; Sigel, Paul, ISBN 3836544342, ISBN-13 9783836544344, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Walter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geometry, and industrial design, as dazzling today as it was a century ago.
In this essential architect introduction, we survey Gropius’ evolution and influence with 20 of his most significant projects, from the Bauhaus Building in Dessau, Germany, to the Chicago Tribune Tower and Harvard University Graduate Center, completed after Gropius’s exodus to the United States in 1937. We explore his role both as an architectural practitioner, and as a writer and educator, not only as a Bauhaus pioneer, but also, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as a leading proponent of the International Style.
Along the way, we see how many of Gropius’s tenets remain benchmarks for architects, designers, and urbanists today. Whether in his emphasis on a functional beauty or his interest in housing and city planning, Gropius astounds in the agility of his thinking as much as in the luminous precision of his work.
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Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture series features:
an introduction to the life and work of the architect
the major works in chronological order
information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)
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Book Title: Gropius
Item Length: 10.5in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 8.5in
Author: Taschen, Gilbert Lupfer & Paul Sigel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Buildings / General, Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs, Individual Architects & Firms / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Publisher: Taschen
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Architecture
Item Weight: 21.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
