Gropius

[ groh-pee-uhs; German groh-pee-oos ]

noun

1. Wal·ter [wawl, -ter, vahl, -t, uh, r], 1883–1969, German architect, in the U.S. from 1937.

Gropius

/ ˈɡrəʊpɪəs /

noun

1. GropiusWalter18831969MUSGermanARCHITECTURE: architectARTS AND CRAFTS: designerEDUCATION: teacher Walter. 1883–1969, US architect, designer, and teacher, born in Germany. He founded (1919) and directed (1919–28) the Bauhaus in Germany. His influence stemmed from his adaptation of architecture to modern social needs and his pioneering use of industrial materials, such as concrete and steel. His buildings include the Fagus factory at Alfeld (1911) and the Bauhaus at Dessau (1926)

Example Sentences

Goldwait, the standout in the cast, plays Walter Gropius, the German architect who became the founding director of the Bauhaus.

From Los Angeles Times

Katarina Joy Lopez takes on the most self-dramatizing of the characters, Austrian composer and author Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler’s former wife who later married Gropius in a tortured, ill-fated union.

From Los Angeles Times

Among those who submitted works but won nothing: the British poet and novelist Robert Graves in 1924, the Dadaist George Grosz, in 1928, and Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school of architecture, in 1932.

From New York Times

Influenced by the Swiss-French Le Corbusier, and the German Walter Gropius, who arrived in London in 1934 fleeing Nazi Germany, these designers saw the new materials, minimal ornamentation and sweeping, simple lines of modernism as the way forward.

From New York Times

Gropius left for the United States in 1937, proclaiming England an “inartistic country.”

From New York Times