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Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus
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Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus

The origins of Modern Architecture and Design.
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 6/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • At the end of this course students will gain an appreciation for and an understanding of the development of Modern Architecture and Design.
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 43m total length

  • Introduction2:33

    Explore the life and works of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and trace his modern architecture impact through the Fagus factory, Bauhaus school, the Gropius house, and MetLife building.

  • Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory4:53

    Peter Behrens is hailed as the father of modern design. Walter Gropius shaped the AEG turbine factory in Berlin, prioritizing daylight and space with a steel frame and glass.

  • Faguswerk3:13

    Explore the Faguswerk (1911–1913) by Walter Gropius, a shoe last factory in northern Germany, showcasing glass curtain walls, ribbon windows, and interior columns that create lightness and a column-free facade.

  • The Bauhaus10:58

    Explore how the Bauhaus blends art and craft under Walter Gropius, uniting theory with fabrication in a white building with glass curtain walls, vermilion accents, and a propeller-industry homage.

  • Gropius House4:26

    Explore the 1938 Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, where Walter Gropius designed it for his family after fleeing Nazi Germany and taught at Harvard, a three-dimensional translation of Bauhaus ideas.

  • Harvard Graduate Center2:09

    Explore the Harvard Graduate Center, the Gropius Complex, designed under Walter Gropius by seven architects, creating Harvard Law School's first modern dormitories and commons joined by pathways.

  • The MetLife Building5:11

    Study the MetLife Building, a skyscraper originally Pan Am, designed with Walter Gropius, featuring an octagonal form and bubbles related to heating and ventilation, illustrating modernist mentorship and evolving facade.

  • Course Catalog9:46

    Explore the course catalog through a playful sequence of repetitive lines like 'birdie' and 'it's over' to engage learners with the Bauhaus topic.

Requirements

  • This course is part of a series on Modern Architecture and Design. It requires an interest in Modern Architecture and Design.

Description

This course is on the work of architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus School of Design. Walter Gropius is the spark for modern design and architecture. He was the founder and president of the Bauhaus School of Design. This school is both a building and an art and design movement, very possibly the most important in modern history. This course is part of a series on Modern Architecture and Design that includes courses on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. I teach courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated firsthand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone interested in Architecture and Design, particularly Modern Architecture and Design.

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