125th Birthday of Walter Gropius

Today I have surprise when opening Google. Google logo has becoming a set of buildings. If you take your mouse over that logo, you can get information that this image is 125th Birthday of Walter Gropius. Who is Walter Gropius??

Walter Adolph Gropius is a Germany American person. He was born in Berlin German, May 18, 1883. He is a famous building architect. Well, actually I don’t know much about this man. However, Google was remind us about him. He must be an important person. You can read Walter Gropius biography in Wikipedia.

He already build great building when he was life. Below is the important building that born from his creative hands.

• 1910–1911 the Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany
• 1914 Office and Factory Buildings at the Werkbund Exhibition, 1914, Cologne, Germany
• 1921 Sommerfeld House, Berlin, Germany designed for Adolf Sommerfeld
• 1922 competition entry for the Chicago Tribune Tower competition
• 1925–1932 Bauhaus School and Faculty, Housin, Dessau, Germany
• 1936 Village College, Impington, Cambridge, England
• 1937 The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
• 1942–1944 Aluminum City Terrace housing project, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA
• 1949–1950 Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (The Architects’ Collaborative) [2]
• 1957–1960 University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
• 1963–1966 John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• 1948 Peter Thacher Junior High School,
• 1958–1963 Pan Am Building (now the Metlife Building), New York, New York, with Pietro Belluschi and project architects Emery Roth & Sons
• 1957 Interbau Apartment blocks, Hansaviertel, Berlin, Germany, with The Architects’ Collaborative and Wils Ebert
• 1961 The award-winning Wayland High School, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
• 1959–1961 Embassy of the United States, Athens, Greece (The Architects’ Collaborative and consulting architect Pericles A. Sakellarios)
• 1967–69 Tower East Shaker Heights, Ohio, this was Gropius last major project.

Walter Gropius was dead in 1969 in his 86 age. Today, he is remembered not only by his various buildings but also by the district of Gropiusstadt in Berlin.