Gropius, Walter: Brief History
Walter Adolph Gropius was born in Berlin, Germany in 1883. He studied architecture in Munich and worked in the office of Peter Behrens in Berlin. In 1910 he formed a partnership with Adolf Meyer. The following year he designed the spectacular Fagus factory in Alfeld-an-der-Leine. Gropius followed this with the Werkbund Exhibition Building in Cologne (1914).
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Gropius, Walter: Great Buildings
Walter Gropius was born in Berlin in 1883. The son of an architect, he studied at the Technical Universities in Munich and Berlin. He joined the office of Peter Behrens in 1910 and three years later established a practice with Adolph Meyer. For his early commissions he borrowed from the Industrial Classicism introduced by Behrens.
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Gropius, Walter: BBC Education
Born in Berlin in May 1883, the third child of Walther Gropius, an architect who worked for the municipal authority and his wife, Manon Scharnweber.
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Gropius, Walter: 'Encyclopedia.com'
Gropius, Walter Pronounced As: vältr gropoos , 1883-1969, German-American architect, one of the leaders of modern functional architecture.
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