Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus

by Fiona MacCarthy

Book Overview

"This is an absolute triumph--ideas, lives, and the dramas of the twentieth century are woven together in a feat of storytelling. A masterpiece."
--Edmund de Waal, ceramic artist and author of The White Road

The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings--Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am--but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737857
• ISBN13: 9780674737853
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"