<p>130 years ago, the German architect Walter Gropius was born.</p>

Berlin - The world-famous German architect, urban planner, and architecture theorist Walter Gropius was born 130 years ago, on May 18, 1883, in Berlin. One of the most significant innovators in 20th-century architecture and a leading representative of functionalism, he lived in the USA from the second half of the 1930s and passed away in July 1969.
    The fundamental principles of his buildings were objectivity and functionality, adherence to strictly geometric shapes, and a rejection of any ornamental division of the structure. In 1919, he initiated the founding of the Bauhaus School of Arts and Crafts and served as its first director. The Bauhaus aimed to combine visual art and applied crafts under the guidance of architecture and soon became the center of the artistic avant-garde of interwar Europe. In 1928, Gropius resigned from his position due to fatigue and constant attacks on him, left the school, and worked as an independent architect.
    After the Nazis came to power, he emigrated to England in 1934 and three years later accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States. There he modernized and reorganized traditional teaching and also contributed to the spread of functionalism into conservative America. Among the most significant works of this renowned architect are the Bauhaus building in Dessau, the Fagus Factory in Alfeld near Hanover, the Törten estate near Dessau, the school in Impington, or the PanAm building in New York. His extensive artistic production also includes designs for functional objects - chairs, lamps, textiles, and ceramics.

Walter Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts (1938)