Adolph Georg Walter Gropius was born in Berlin, Germany on May 18, 1883. He died at the age of 86 on July 5, 1969. His father was Walter Adolph Grophius, and his mother Pauline Auguste Manon Scharnweber.

Walter Gropius was one of the largest German architects and educators in the 20th century. With a number of his contemporaries, Walter Gropius is regarded as one of the pioneers of a type of architecture known as the “modern architecture”.

The son of a good architect, Gropius received his training in Munich. After a year of the journey through Spain and Italy, he joined the office of Peter Behrens, the largest European architect of the day in Berlin. In 1910, Gropius left Behrens to work in partnership with Adolf Meyer to 1924-25. This period is the most successful of the Gropius long career, he designed most of its buildings in this period. The Fagus factory in Alfeld-an-der-Leine (1911) has immediately its reputation as a major architect.

Although Gropius is best known for the Bauhaus-style architecture his reputation was first established when, in collaboration with Adolph Meyer, he designed the Fagus Works (1910-1911) and the office building for the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne (1914) .

Walter Gropius resistance against the Nazi regime and secretly left Germany in 1934. After several years in England, Gropius began teaching architecture at the University of Harvard. As a professor at Harvard, introduced concepts Gropius and the Bauhaus design principles - teamwork standardization and prefabricated - to a generation of American architects.

Between 1938 to 1941, Gropius worked on several houses with Marcel Breuer. They formed the collaboration of architects in 1945. Of the commissions were the Harvard Graduate Center (1946), the U.S. embassy in Athens and the University of Baghdad. One of the last Gropius designed in collaboration with Pietro Belluschi, was the Pam Am Building (now the Metropolitan Life Building) in New York.
An important theoretician and teacher, Gropius a wall system using a steel structure supporting the floors and that may go beyond the walls of glass to continue without interruption. Gropius created innovative designs that borrowed materials and construction methods of modern technology. This plea was the construction industrialized belief in teamwork and an acceptance of standardization and prefabricated. Using the basic technology, he is transformed from a building in science about the accuracy of mathematical calculations.

Gropius’ extensive facilities for the Bauhaus in Dessau combination of education, students and faculty members of housing, an auditorium, rooms and offices. The configuration of the sun seen from the air is the shape of the propeller planes manufactured in the region of Dessau. The complex includes a range of techniques and design-oriented progress petchance including windows, creating an architecture of transparency with the structure behind the rise in skin. It was radically the structure of the population by the progressive minds espionage a single group approach learning. The basic structure of the Bauhaus consists of a clear and well thought-out system for connecting wings, corresponding to the operating system within the school. The technique of building… evidenced by the latest technological development at the moment: a skeleton of concrete with stones, mushroom-shaped ceilings on the lower level, and roofs covered with asphalt, tiles that can be run. The construction zone is composed of 42445 [cubic meters] (32450 [cubic meters]) and the total cost amounted 902500 brands. Such economic performance is thanks to the help of Bauhaus teachers and students, who, at the same time, of course, can be regarded as an ideal means of education.

In 1946, Walter Gropius belief in the importance of teamwork led him to form the Architects Collaborative, a group that has carried out commissions, like the Harvard Graduate Center (1949), the U.S. embassy in Athens (1960) and the University of Baghdad (1960 ). A great architect Gropius influence as an educator and teacher was even greater.

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