Walter Gropius
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-born American architect and founder of the
Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of
modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar and taught there for several years, becoming known as a leading proponent of the
International Style. Gropius emigrated from Germany to England in 1934 and from England to the United States in 1937, where he spent much of the rest of his life teaching at the
Harvard Graduate School of Design. In the United States he worked on several projects with
Marcel Breuer and with the firm
The Architects Collaborative, of which he was a founding partner. In 1959, he won the
AIA Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture.
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