After emigrating in 1937, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) was able to pursue a second major ... as head of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). A Distant Influence ...

Together with Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Wassily Kandinsky, Bayer helped shape a philosophy of functional design that extended across disciplines ranging from architecture to typography ...

For the first director and founder of the Bauhaus, Walter ... handcrafts. Gropius felt everyday objects must be redesigned to fit the production process, so that they could be manufactured quickly and ...