Walter Gropius An Illustrated Biography

Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund traces the life and work of the founder of the Bauhaus — the most influential design school of the twentieth century and the movement that shaped modernism as we understand it. From Gropius’s early training in Berlin to his directorship of the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, his flight from Nazi Germany, his years at Harvard, and his final projects in the United States, the biography follows a life that was inseparable from the history of twentieth-century design. Daybelge and Englund write with authority and clarity, and the book is richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and archival material. Published by Phaidon, this is essential for architects, designers, and anyone interested in the movement that defined how the modern world was made.