Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus.

Important buildings

• the Fagus Works, 1910–1911, Alfred an der Leine, Germany
• the Bauhaus, 1919–1925, Dessau, Germany
• the Gropius House, 1937, Lincoln, Massachusetts
• the Harvard Graduate Center (1949–1950), Cambridge, Massachusetts (Architects Collaborative) http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Harvard_Graduate_Center.html
• the University of Baghdad (1957–1960)
• the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (1963–1966)
• the Attleboro Junior High School (1948)
• the Pan Am Building (now the Metlife Building), (1958–1963), New York, New York, with Pietro Belluschi and project architects Emery Roth & Sons
• the Interbau Apartment blocks (1957), Hansaviertel Berlin, Germany, with TAC and Wils Ebert
• the award-winning Wayland High School (1961)