THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND THE BAUHAUS
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius: THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND THE BAUHAUS. London: Faber and Faber, 1956. Third impression. Octavo. Black cloth stamped in white. Photographically printed dust jacket. 80 pp. 16 black and white plates. Price-clipped jacket with very light wear to the spine tips and edges. The jacket reproduces the original 1935 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy design; an example of Moholy's "Rhodoid" technique: photographing a composition through glass or other transparent material to catch the shadow cast on the background. A near fine copy.5.75 x 8.25 book with 80 glossy pages, including 16 full-pages b/w photographs. Introduction by Frank Pick. 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. Uncommon with the Dust Jacket.
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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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