Entrée principale:

Isaacs, Reginald R., 1911-1986.

Titre et auteur:

Gropius : an illustrated biography of the creator of the Bauhaus / by Reginald Isaacs.

Édition:

1st English-language ed.

Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, ©1991.

Description:

xix, 344 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Translation and abridgement of: Walter Gropius.
"A Bulfinch Press book."
Includes bibliographical references (page 333) and index.
Foreword / by Walter Gropius -- Editor's note -- Preface -- Prologue -- Genealogy -- The forge 1883-1907. The Gropius heritage ; The formative years ; Early experience -- The young architect 1908-1918. The Behrens office ; The Gropius office ; Alma Schindler Mahler ; The war years -- Weimar and the Bauhaus 1919-1925. The postwar era ; The founding of the Bauhaus ; Architectural practice ; Lily Hildebrandt ; Life and work at the Bauhaus ; Ise Frank Gropius ; The last year in Weimar -- The Dessau Bauhaus 1925-1928. The move to Dessau ; Architectural practice ; Bauhaus affairs ; Gropius's last Bauhaus year -- Berlin 1928-1934. Travel in the United States ; The Berlin office ; The Bauhaus : Hannes Meyer and Mies van der Rohe ; Ise Gropius's search for identity ; Politics : the denigration of the Bauhaus and the profession ; Retreat from Berlin -- The transition 1934-1937. Introduction to England ; Adapting to England ; Private practice and activities ; Overtures from Harvard University -- The fertile ground 1937-1952. A changing United States ; Arrival at Harvard University ; The war years ; The postwar period -- Emeritus career 1952-1969. Travel and TAC ; The return to Germany ; Return to England ; Practice in Canada and the United States -- Chronology.

Ressources:
Copertina
Indici

ISBN:

0821217534
9780821217535

Sujet:

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969.
Gropius, Walter.
Architects Germany Biography.
Architectes Allemagne Biographies.
Architects
Biografie
Arquitetura moderna Alemanha.
Arquitetos.
Biografias.
Germany
Architecture

Classification/genre:

Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Books.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 151251
Cote: NA44.G876.9 I83 1991
Statut: Disponible