WALTER GROPIUS
WORK AND TEAMWORK

Siegfried Giedion

7.5 x 10 hardcover book with 250 pages and 317 finely-printed b/w photographs, plans, drawings, models, etc. B/w photo portrait frontispiece by Hans Namuth. Also includes biographical outline; list of works 1906-1953; a thorough bibliography of Gropius' publications and works about him; and a comprehensive index.

First comprehensive study of the Bauhaus master, by the great architectural historian, author of Mechanization Takes Command and Space, Time and Architecture. Giedion pays tribute to the creative genius of Gropius on his being awarded the first Sao Paulo Prize for Architecture for his work as innovator and educator during the past half-century. Chapters on his background, heritage and personality, appreciations by Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, and eleven chapters on his life and work. [Freitag 4885; Sharp p.54 (citing British edition); Karpel B1229.]

Born and educated in Germany, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) belongs to the select group of architects that massively influenced the international development of modern architecture. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, Gropius made inestimable contributions to his field, to the point that knowing his work is crucial to understanding Modernism. His early buildings, such Fagus Boot-Last Factory and the Bauhaus Building in Dessau, with their use of glass and industrial features, are still indispensable points of reference. After his emigration to the United States, he influenced the education of architects there and became, along with Mies van der Rohe, a leading proponent of the International Style.

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