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Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
Name
Gropius, Walter
Personal Information
Birth/Death: deceased 07/05/1969
Occupation: American architect
Location (state): MA
This record has not been verified for accuracy.
AIA Affiliation
Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1938-decease
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) 1954
Recipient of the AIA Gold Medal 1959
Biographical Sources
American Architects Directories:
Biographical listing in 1956 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1962 American Architects Directory
Biographical Directories:
Entry in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (New York: Macmillan, 1982)
Entry in Richard Guy Wilson, The AIA Gold Medal (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984)
Related Records
The Architects' Collaborative (firm)
Archival Holdings
The American Institute of Architects Archives
Membership file may contain membership application, Fellowship nomination, related correspondence. The AIA Awards files contain further information about Gold Medal recipients. Contact the AIA Archives at archives@aia.org for further information.
Getty Research Institute, Research Library
Walter Gropius letters and manuscript writings, 1918-1963, Accession no. 850311
The collection of seven items includes letters to Richard Meyer (1918), Georg Tappert (1919), and Will Grohmann (1926); a typescript ( ca. 1930) describing housing types for the Werkbund settlement exhibition in Stuttgart; and a portrait photo of Walter Gropius by Xanti Schawinsky (1943).
For further information, see catalog record
Walter Gropius photographs of architecture, Accession no. 900058
The collection consists of twenty four photographs of the Bauhaus school building in Dessau (some of them taken by Lucia Moholy-Nagy) including two of the building under construction; two photographs of the living quarters for the masters; one of the city theater in Jena after its total remodeling by Gropius; three of the settlement in Dörten; two of the employment office in Dessau; one of an unidentified apartment complex; and one photo-postcard of the Fagus-Werk in Alfeld/Leine.
For further information, see catalog record