Gropius

American  

[groh-pee-uhs, groh-pee-oos] / ˈgroʊ pi əs, ˈgroʊ piˌʊs /

noun

1. Walter 1883–1969, German architect, in the U.S. from 1937.

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Gropius British  

/ ˈɡrəʊpɪəs /

noun

1. Walter. 1883–1969, US architect, designer, and teacher, born in Germany. He founded (1919) and directed (1919–28) the Bauhaus in Germany. His influence stemmed from his adaptation of architecture to modern social needs and his pioneering use of industrial materials, such as concrete and steel. His buildings include the Fagus factory at Alfeld (1911) and the Bauhaus at Dessau (1926)

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Goff may have led the way in Oklahoma, but Gropius led Harvard, Mies van der Rohe led IIT and the list goes on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

Katarina Joy Lopez takes on the most self-dramatizing of the characters, Austrian composer and author Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler’s former wife who later married Gropius in a tortured, ill-fated union.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

While he was at Harvard, the teaching of architectural history was practically banned by modernists, including the émigré professor Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

“Reichert was such an enigma,” Hampden says of the Harvard architecture graduate who studied under Walter Gropius.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2022

For a while they talk about the projects they are working on, the architects they both admire: Gropius, van der Rohe, Saarinen.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri