Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius (1883-1969), US architect, born in Berlin. He studied architecture in Munich and Berlin and founded the Bauhaus school of architecture in Weimar (1919). In 1925 the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, where Gropius designed the school building. He later worked in Britain (1936), designing schools and factories with Maxwell Fry, and taught at Harvard (1937-52). His buildings include the Harvard Graduate Center (1950) and the US Embassy, Athens (1960).
