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Walter Gropius

Major Works:

  • 1910–1911 the Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany
  • 1914 Office and Factory Buildings at the Werkbund Exhibition, 1914, Cologne, Germany
  • 1921 Sommerfeld House, Berlin, Germany designed for Adolf Sommerfeld
  • 1922 competition entry for the Chicago Tribune Tower competition
  • 1925–1932 Bauhaus School and Faculty, Housin, Dessau, Germany
  • 1936 Village College, Impington, Cambridge, England
  • 1937 The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
  • 1942–1944 Aluminum City Terrace housing project, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA
  • 1949–1950 Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (The Architects’ Collaborative)[5]
  • 1945–1959 Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA – Master planned 37-acre (150,000 m2) site and led the design for at least 8 of the approx. 28 buildings.[citation needed]
  • 1957–1960 University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
  • 1963–1966 John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • 1948 Peter Thacher Junior High School,
  • 1958–1963 Pan Am Building (now the Metlife Building), New York, with Pietro Belluschi and project architects Emery Roth & Sons
  • 1957 Interbau Apartment blocks, Hansaviertel, Berlin, Germany, with The Architects’ Collaborative and Wils Ebert
  • 1960 Temple Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, Maryland)
  • 1960 the Gropiusstadt building complex, Berlin, Germany
  • 1961 The award-winning Wayland High School, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
  • 1959–1961 Embassy of the United States, Athens, Greece (The Architects’ Collaborative and consulting architect Pericles A. Sakellarios)
  • 1968 Glass Cathedral, Thomas Glassworks, Amberg
  • 1967– 69 Tower East Shaker Heights, Ohio, this was Gropius’ last major project.
  • The building in Niederkirchnerstraße, Berlin, known as the Gropius-Haus is named for Gropius’ great-uncle, Martin Gropius, and is not associated with Bauhaus.

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