Two circular mirrors, one still, one mobile, are mounted on the floor of the Martin-Gropius-Bau's atrium.
Today, at age 90, with Gropius and his generation buried, the Bauhaus has outgrown all of that.
Personified by elegant Gropius and touted by hyperconnected Johnson, the Bauhaus became a ready standard-bearer for International Style architecture.
Somewhat disingenuously (given his early socialist sympathies) Gropius successfully pitched the Bauhaus as an emblem of modern American liberalism.
Born in 1910, Noyes trained as an architect at Harvard, where his teachers included Bauhaus masters Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.
The Bauhaus school, led by German architect Walter Gropius from 1919, worked to do away with the ornamentation and pretenses of bourgeois society.
The buildings of today's architects would have been unfathomable to Gropius, yet he would have understood their impetus, just as these architects understood his.
Americans didn't need to concern themselves with the architectural intricacies separating Gropius the polemicist from Mies the poet, let alone Le Corbusier the theoretician.
The designs draw upon the work and aesthetic principles of the famed architect who was a contemporary of Mies Van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.
Mies considered the coining of Bauhaus to be Gropius' greatest achievement.
This was the Annie Hall era, but Howell's way of wedding Katharine Hepburn to Walter Gropius a '30s sense of modernity has never had a problem finding fans.
Gropius may have agreed: He ensured that the Bauhaus trademark would survive the Weimar Republic by brokering a New Bauhaus in Chicago, run by one of his ex-Bauhaus colleagues, and by promoting the defunct original while head of the Harvard architecture department.
Enthralled by the European sophistication of Gropius (who had once been married to Alma Mahler), MoMA's young architecture curator Philip Johnson in 1932 set about canonizing him and Mies, as well as representatives of other European countries such as the French architect Le Corbusier.
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