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NAME OF PROPERTY

Historic Name: GROPIUS HOUSE

LOCATION

• Street & Number: 68 Baker Bridge Road

• City/Town: Lincoln• State: MA County:

Middlesex

Significance of the building

• Currently the house is Recreation, education and culture because it’s a museum since 2000 when it was declared a national landmark

• Historically it was home of Walter Gropius, a founder of the modern movement in architecture and leader of the Bauhaus,

and his family

Interior

Design approach/style

• MATERIALS:• Foundation: Stone• Walls: Vertical redwood siding• Roof: Tar and gravel• Other: Brick chimney

style: Modern Movement; International Style It combined the traditional elements of New England architecture—wood, brick, and fieldstone

Biography of the architect• German architect Walter Gropius (1883-

1969).• Gropius was founder of the Bauhaus and one

of the most influential architects of the 20th century.

• He was thirty-five years old when he was appointed director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar, Germany

• One of his first decisions was to combine the Academy of Fine Arts with the School of Crafts and rename the new institution the Bauhaus

• He designed Gropius house in 1937, when he went to teach at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design

Other projects

• Gropius was founder of the Bauhaus. which involved planning for maximum efficiency and simplicity of design

References

• Wikipedia • Historic new England