THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND THE BAUHAUS
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius: THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND THE BAUHAUS. Boston: Charles T. Branford, n. d. [1955]. Third impression [assembled from Faber sheets]. Octavo. Black cloth stamped in white. Photographically printed dust jacket. 80 pp. 16 black and white plates. Jacket with light wear to edges and spine joints, with a small chip to front panel. Former owners signature on front free endpaper. Architectures' circular license emboss to half-title page. A near fine copy in a very good [non price-clipped] or better dust jacket.
5.75 x 8.25 book with 80 glossy pages, including 16 full-pages black and white photographs. Introduction by Frank Pick. This is the book where Gropius attempted to spell out his theories of the new architecture he had incubated and formalized while Director of the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau from 1919 to 1928.Preface by Frank Pick
- The New Architecture & the Bauhaus
- Standardization
- Rationalization
- The Bauhaus:
- Preparartory instruction
- Practical & formal instruction
- Structural instruction
Born and educated in Germany, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) belongs to the select group of architects that massively influenced the international development of modern architecture. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, Gropius made inestimable contributions to his field, to the point that knowing his work is crucial to understanding Modernism. His early buildings, such Fagus Boot-Last Factory and the Bauhaus Building in Dessau, with their use of glass and industrial features, are still indispensable points of reference. After his emigration to the United States, he influenced the education of architects there and became, along with Mies van der Rohe, a leading proponent of the International Style.