uctures containing glass curtain walls spanning steel girders that would form the skeleton of the building.Walter Gropius (1883-1969) was in 1919 appointed to director of the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts, Academy of Arts, and School of Arts which were immediately joined as the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar (Public Bauhaus Weimar).It was at this school that Gropius taught design principles. He saw architecture as ever changing, related to the contemporary world. He spoke of an architects duty to encompass the whole visual environment. He also emphasized housing and city planning, the usefulness of sociology, and the necessity of using specialists.In 1925 the Bauhaus moved to Dessau with the promise of better financial support. Gropius designed the school building there and today it is known as one of his best works. In 1928 Walter Gropius resigned as head of the Bauhaus to work privately in Berlin. And in 1933 the Nazi regime had the Bauhaus closed. In 1944 after being a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts, he became a naturalized United States citizen. In addition to his teaching, Gropius associated with Marcel Breuer, a former student of the Bauhaus who had later sought a teaching job. Together they worked on Walter Gropius home in Lincoln Massachusetts. The design of this house was controversial at first but was slowly accepted. His house was designed with painted white wood and fieldstone, which restated New England traditionalism. In 1942 Gropius became the vice president of General Panel Corporation, a company that made prefabricated housing. He retired at the age of 69 in 1952, and was deceased at the age of 86. At his request his funeral was not to be a mournful occasion, and it was said that 70 of his friends drank champagne for 2 days after his death.Marcel Breuer was one of the most influential architects of the International Style. He was very concerned with the uses of newly dev...
