Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 in Weimar, but after the school lost the confidence of the local state government, it moved into its iconic modernist buildings in Dessau, only to be chased away ...

German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. As we continue our Bauhaus 100 series exploring the school's centenary, we profile the man who had a vision to make art accessible to the ...

Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus, by Fiona MacCarthy (Faber & Faber, March 2019) Biographies of artists are an unwieldy yet wildly rewarding genre, with authors heroically flexing ...

“Biography as I’ve come to see it is a slow-burning process of the making of connections.” In 1964 the slow burn began with a chain of events that would lead Fiona MacCarthy to a chance encounter with ...

These and other products came out of the short-lived but prolific German design school founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius; it was later led by architects Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der ...

Well timed for the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first biography of Walter Gropius (1883–1969) since Reginald Isaacs’s Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus was translated ...

From Richard Rogers to Habitat and Ikea, the influence of the Bauhaus school is everywhere. So why is its charismatic founder, Walter Gropius, still so widely misunderstood? Arrogant and charmless, ...

Any mention of the Bauhaus conjures up a sequence of those well-known design objects: a Wagenfeld lamp, a Marianne Brandt teapot, a Marcel Breuer chair. But the Bauhaus was much more than the ...