In honor of what would have been his 125th birthday, Google celebrated the birthday of Walter Gropius today, by creating the signature Google search logo above.
Today May 18th is the 125th Birthday of Walter Gropius, one of the pioneering masters of "modern" architecture. To honor Walter Gropius on his birthday, Google has changed its logo for today as shown in the image above.
One of the buildings Walter Gropius helped design was "The Pan Am Building" now called the "The Met Life Building" in New York City. Check out Wikipedia for Walter Gropius's Architectural work.
Walter Gropius’s home was built in 1938 - Striking as it is, the house was built with economy in mind, and total construction costs were $18,000.
Along with Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a founder of the Bauhaus design movement. He was born May 18, 1883. Gropius was born in Berlin, breifly served as a reservist in World War I, and succeeded the Belgian head of the Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar. When the Belgian master was forced to step down because of his nationality, Gropius stepped in, establishing Bauhaus and attracting a prestigious faculty that including Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Herbet Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Bartning and Wassily Kandinsky.