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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1959
Born: May 18, 1883;
Berlin, Germany
Died: 1969;
Boston
Quote
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building!
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• 1966: John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Boston
• 1963: Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building), New York
City
• 1961: Wayland High School, Wayland, Mass.
• 1960: University of Baghdad
• 1957: Interbau Apartment blocks, Hansaviertel Berlin,
Germany
• 1950: Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1937: Gropius House, Lincoln, Mass.
• 1925: Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
• 1911: Fagus Works, , Alfeld an der Leine, Germany
Biography
Walter Gropius was the third son of an architect and building
consultant to the German government. He studied architecture in
Munich and Berlin. In 1910, he went to work for Peter Behrens; in
1913 he and Adolph Meyer set up their own practice.
Gropius became the chairman of the Working Council for Art in early
1919 and was named director of the Grand Ducal School of Fine Arts
of Saxony in Weimar, which merged with the former School of Arts
and Crafts. In April, the new institution was officially opened
under the name State Bauhaus Weimar. Gropius’ mission in the
school was to develop a new architectural style to reflect the
beginning of a new age that he believed had commenced with the end
of World War I. He perceived the arts as an integrated discipline
and the school was designed around that concept. Because Gropius
sought to democratize the arts and architecture, he encouraged his
students to design with the goals of simplicity, functionality, and
innovation partnered with the concepts of economy and mass
production.
In 1934, as the Nazi Party began to increase in power, Gropius left
Germany and settled briefly in England. In 1937 he moved to
Massachusetts, taking a teaching position at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design. While in Cambridge, Gropius founded The
Architects’ Collaborative (TAC).
TAC’s foundational philosophy reflected Gropius’s
own—a driving belief in both the social responsibility of
architecture and teamwork. TAC projects were designed via the input
of a number of architects, with one architect serving as partner in
charge to lead the team and act the group’s face to the
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