{"product_id":"gropius","title":"Gropius","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eModernist visionary Walter Gropius was founding director of the Bauhaus and pioneer of the International Style. From the Bauhaus School in Dessau, Germany, to the Chicago Tribune Tower, his fundamental tenets of functional beauty and a complete aesthetic environment remain benchmarks for architects, designers, and urbanists alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eISBN 9783836544344\u003cbr\u003eHardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.56 kg, 96 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFuture Façades\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Gropius, visionary of the Bauhaus and beyond\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWalter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geometry, and industrial design, as dazzling today as it was a century ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this essential architect introduction, we survey Gropius’ evolution and influence with 20 of his most significant projects, from the Bauhaus Building in Dessau, Germany, to the Chicago Tribune Tower and Harvard University Graduate Center, completed after Gropius’s exodus to the United States in 1937. We explore his role both as an architectural practitioner, and as a writer and educator, not only as a Bauhaus pioneer, but also, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as a leading proponent of the International Style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, we see how many of Gropius’s tenets remain benchmarks for architects, designers, and urbanists today. Whether in his emphasis on a functional beauty or his interest in housing and city planning, Gropius astounds in the agility of his thinking as much as in the luminous precision of his work.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eThe authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eGilbert Lupfer studied art history, history, Romance studies and cultural studies at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen and the Freie Universität in Berlin. Paul Sigel studied art history and German literature at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen. They both currently teach at the Technische Universität Dresden.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/search\/?searchPhrase=Peter%20G%C3%B6ssel\"\u003ePeter Gössel\u003c\/a\u003e runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He has published TASCHEN monographs on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/julius-shulman\/\"\u003eJulius Shulman\u003c\/a\u003e, R. M. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/books\/architecture-design\/43147\/\"\u003eSchindler\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/search\/?searchPhrase=lautner\"\u003eJohn Lautner\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/richard-neutra\/\"\u003eRichard Neutra\u003c\/a\u003e, as well as several titles in the Basic Architecture series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Edwards Lowell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58315413487941,"sku":"9783836544344","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/7132\/6789\/files\/GROPIUS_BA_GB_3D_49297-Photoroom.png?v=1781863639","url":"https:\/\/elcol.com\/products\/gropius","provider":"Edwards Lowell","version":"1.0","type":"link"}