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Gropius

Copertina rigida8.3 x 10.2 in.1.36 lb96 pagine20Edizione: Inglese Disponibilità: Disponibile
Modernist 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.
Gropius

Gropius

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Future Façades

Walter Gropius, visionary of the Bauhaus and beyond

Walter 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.

In 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.

Along 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.
Gli autori

Gilbert 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.

L'editore

Peter Gössel dirige un’agenzia che si occupa di design espositivo e museale. Con TASCHEN ha pubblicato monografie su Julius Shulman, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner e Richard Neutra, oltre a svariati titoli della collana Basic Architecture.

Gropius
Copertina rigida21 x 26 cm0.62 kg96 pagine

ISBN 978-3-8365-4434-4

Edizione: Inglese
Nata nel 1985, la serie Basic Art è diventata la collezione di libri d’arte più venduta al mondo. Ogni libro della serie Basic Art di TASCHEN contiene: una cronologia dettagliata riassuntiva della vita e delle opere dell’artista, inserito nel contesto storico e culturale in cui è vissuto una biografia concisa circa 100 illustrazioni con didascalie esplicative