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Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius was a German architect who founded the Bauhaus school in Weimar in 1919 and designed its new building in Dessau in 1925–1926. A pioneer of modern architecture using glass curtain walls and industrial materials, he left Nazi Germany in 1934, worked in England and then taught at Harvard University from 1937.
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- APA
- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Walter Gropius. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/walter-gropius
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- “Walter Gropius.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/walter-gropius. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Walter Gropius.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/walter-gropius.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Walter Gropius’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/walter-gropius (Accessed: ).
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