German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. As we continue our Bauhaus 100 series exploring the school's centenary, we profile the man who had a vision to make art accessible to the ...

The museum's director Stephanie Rosenthal has big plans for the institution, including a new ticketing system and an atrium makeover. Stephanie Rosenthal standing in ...

Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 in Weimar, but after the school lost the confidence of the local state government, it moved into its iconic modernist buildings in Dessau, only to be chased away ...

Installation view of Yayoi Kusama - A Retrospective at the Gropius Bau (photo by Luca Girardini) Yayoi Kusama is one of the world's most important contemporary artists and the Gropius Bau in Berlin is ...

Well timed for the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first biography of Walter Gropius (1883–1969) since Reginald Isaacs’s Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus was translated ...

This article was originally published on March 28, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section. The Fagus Factory is one of the earliest ...

Historic New England has launched a competition to design a separate, permanent public restroom for Gropius House, the Lincoln, Massachusetts, home of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. Since the ...

From Weimar to Ikea ... a brilliant biography makes clear the master of modernism’s deep influence on design If Fiona MacCarthy were a less confident writer, she would have started her biography of ...

One of the most highly regarded architects of the 20th century, Walter Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was one of the founding fathers of Modernism, and the founder of the Bauhaus, the German ...

A bust of Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus-Universität (via flickr.com/libaer2002) Cambridge, MA — There’s something that makes Harkness Commons — also known as ...

The Bauhaus mastermind was 85 years old when he agreed to design a new residency for the German ambassador in Buenos Aires. It was one of his last projects and among his best. The only problem — it ...