Through a stroke of luck, Haus Otte from Walter Gropius narrowly escaped demolition. But when you stand in front of the bright plaster façade of this architectural wonder in Berlin’s Zehlendorf ...

Biographical material, correspondence with architects and artists (1903-1978), writings (1923-1969), a diary, an autograph book, subject files, printed material, photographs (1883-1979) and 5 ...

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 ...

What is Walter Gropius's most expensive artwork? Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 20,400 USD for Rare ceiling light, 1925, sold at Phillips New York, Chelsea in 2005. Numerous ...

One in a series on National Historic Landmarks in New England. LINCOLN — A shockwave swept across the preservation community 30 years ago when Historic New England (then the Society for the ...

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 ...

A bust of Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus-Universität (via flickr.com/libaer2002) Cambridge, MA — There’s something that makes Harkness Commons — also known as ...

The hard lines and sharp corners of the architectural evangelists were too much for 1930s Britain – which Walter Gropius called a ‘land of fog and emotional nightmares’. Here’s what the UK could have ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

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For years, visitors to the family home of Walter Gropius had to use a single porta-potty. Now, they'll get to experience a commode that honors his design legacy. Before Bauhaus, the father of ...