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    Gropius : the man who built the Bauhaus / Fiona MacCarthy.

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    • Title:Gropius : the man who built the Bauhaus / Fiona MacCarthy.
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    • Author/Creator:MacCarthy, Fiona, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969, architect.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969.
      Bauhaus.
      Architects--Biography.
      Architecture--Study and teaching--Massachusetts--Cambridge--History--20th century.
      Modern movement (Architecture)
    • Genre/Form:Biographies.
    • Edition:First Harvard University Press edition, 2019
    • Description:viii, 547 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm
    • Summary:The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings--Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am--but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was at the center of European modernism and avant-garde society glamor, only to be exiled to the antimodernist United Kingdom during the Nazi years. Later, under the democratizing influence of American universities, Gropius became an advocate of public art and cemented a starring role in twentieth-century architecture and design. Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the visionary philosophy and courage that carried him through a politically hostile age. Pilloried by Tom Wolfe as inventor of the monolithic high-rise, Gropius is better remembered as inventor of a form of art education that influenced schools worldwide. He viewed argument as intrinsic to creativity. Unusually for one in his position, Gropius encouraged women's artistic endeavors and sought equal romantic partners. Though a traveler in elite circles, he objected to the cloistering of beauty as "a special privilege for the aesthetically initiated." Gropius offers a poignant and personal story--and a fascinating reexamination of the urges that drove European and American modernism.-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:"First published in 2018 by Faber & Faber Limited Bloomsbury House United Kingdom."
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780674737853 hardcover alkaline paper
      0674737857 hardcover alkaline paper
    • Contents:Preface: The silver prince
      First life: Germany
      Berlin 1883-1907
      Spain 1907-1908
      Berlin 1908-1910
      Vienna and Alma Mahler 1910-1913
      Gropius at war 1914-1918
      Bauhaus: Weimar and Lily Hildebrandt 1919-1920
      Bauhaus: Weimar and Maria Benemann 1920-1922
      Bauhaus: Weimar and Ise Gropius 1923-1925
      Bauhaus: Dessau 1925-1926
      Bauhaus: Dessau 1927-1928
      America 1928
      Berlin 1928-1932
      Berlin 1933-1934
      Second life: London, Berlin, Rome 1934
      London 1934
      London 1935
      London 1935-1936
      London 1936-1937
      Third life: America
      Harvard 1937-1939
      Harvard and the Second World War 1940-1944
      Return to Berlin 1945-1947
      Harvard and TAC 1948-1952
      Wandering star: Japan, Paris, London, Baghdad, Berlin 1953-1959
      New England 1960-1969
      Afterword: Reverberations.
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