WA LT E R

GROPIUS
GROPIUS
HOUSE

WA LT E R
GROPIUS

o Born 1883 in Berlin, Germany.

o Founder of German design school known as
Bauhaus.
o Most influential architect of 20th century.
o Designed Gropius house as his family home on 1938.

o 1903 and 1907 in Munich and Berlin

o 1908 to 1910 - worked for Peter Behrens
o 1910 - own architecture practice in Berlin -joined Henry
van
de Velde to counter standardization of design and
promote individual creativity. -member of the
Deutscher Werkbund
o 1911 - Gropius designed the Fagus Works in Alfeld
o 1919 - the "State Bauhaus", which was founded in Weimar
o 1927 - Walter Gropius gave up his position as director
o 1933 - Bauhaus still existed until this year
o 1938 - Walter Gropius brought Marcel Breuer to Harvard
and
founded a joint architecture practice with him
o 1939 - With Breuer Walter Gropius also built the
Pennsylvania
Pavilion for New York World's Fair
o 1946 - founded "The Architects Collaborative" (TAC)

PHI LOSO PH
Y
Architecture
begins

when
engineering ends.

to build is to create event

-Architects, sculpturers, painters, we must all return to the crafts!

BAUHAUS
PHI LOS OPHY

Every aspect of the house and its

surrounding landscape was planned for
maximum efficiency and simplicity

I N T E R N AT I O N A L
STYLE

FAGUS FACTORY, Germany

BAUHAUS, Germany

HAUS AM HORN, Germany

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Simple geometry, often rectangular

modern material like steel and glass
Smooth surfaces with primary colours
Linear and horizontal elements

GROPIUS HOUSE, Lincoln

CONCEPT

o hybrid of traditional New England aesthetic and the

modernist teachings of the Bauhaus.
o S I M P L I C I T Y A N D O R D E R prevailed under
European influences
o G E O M E T R Y - free beauty and decoration
o ORGANIC L A N D S C A P E - Gropius wanted the outdoor
space around the home to be an equally "civilized
area
o geometry, and aesthetic beauty determined by
materials rather than applied ornamentation

Located on a
hill

Landscape

Stone structure

o No artificial symmetry, but free functional arrangement for

the
room
o Ground Floor access is diagonal.
o Living and dining are next to the centre of the house.

o Uses hollow glass block to give privacy to the lobby.

o Porch is located one space covering the porch with stone
flooring.
o Has two levels with stone structure in the basement, wood,
bricks.
o From this level starts a spiral staircase

o modernist aesthetic on the local materials

o combined with the tinted ribbon windows
o flat roof

INTERIOR