Walter GropiusGerman, 1883–1969"Packaged House" System, 1942-1952: Section
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Cambridge, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- BRGA.97.162
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Meanwhile, in the life of Walter Gropius
The whole life1937–1952
I. M. Pei among his Harvard students
Among Gropius’s Harvard students was the future famous architect of Chinese origin I. M. Pei, builder of the Louvre’s glass pyramid.
during the Second World War
Information on German houses for British bombing raids
Like other refugee German architects, Gropius gave the RE8 research department of the British Air Ministry information on the typical construction of German houses; it was used to find the most efficient way of setting fire to houses with incendiary bombs, in planning raids such as the bombing of Hamburg in July 1943.
1944
Becomes an American citizen
In 1944 Gropius became a naturalised citizen of the United States.
1945
Senior partner of The Architects Collaborative
In 1945 the young founding members of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in Cambridge asked Gropius to join as their senior partner: the firm embodied his lifelong belief in teamwork, which he had already successfully introduced at the Bauhaus. Among TAC’s earliest works were the residential developments Six Moon Hill and Five Fields in Lexington.
1947 · Award
Honorary Royal Designer for Industry
1952
Retires from Harvard
In 1952 Gropius retired from the chairmanship of the Department of Architecture; at the end of his career he also sat on the Visiting Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
