THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND THE BAUHAUS
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius: THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND THE BAUHAUS. London/NYC: Faber and Faber/the Museum of Modern Art, (n. d. 1936). First American edition. A very good hardcover book bound in full, decorated cloth without the Moholy-Nagy dust jacket: front hinge tender and oatmeal cloth soiled and discolored. Interior unmarked and very clean. 5.75 x 8.25 book with 80 glossy pages, including 16 full-pages b/w photographs. This is the book where Gropius attempted to spell out his theories of the new architecture he had incubated and formalized while Director of the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau from 1919 to 1928.
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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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