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

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