| Walter Gropius  AKA Walter Adolph Gropius
Born: 18-May-1883
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: 5-Jul-1969
Location of death: Boston, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Architect, Artist Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Founder of the Bauhaus school Father: Walter Adolph Gropius
Mother: Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber (b. 1855, d. 1933)
Wife: Alma Schindler (ex-wife of Gustav Mahler)
Daughter: Manon (b. 1916, d. 1935 polio)
Professor: Founder, Bauhaus School (1919-28)
Professor: Architecture, Harvard University
The Architects' Collaborative Founder (1945)
Naturalized US Citizen 1944
Selected edifices:
Fagus Factory (1911, Alfeld, Germany
)
Bauhaus School (1925-32, Housin, Dessau, Germany
)
Village College (1936, Impington, Cambridge, England
)
Gropius House (1937, Lincoln, MA
)
Harvard Graduate Center (1949, Cambridge, MA
)
University of Baghdad (1957-60, Baghdad, Iraq
)
US Embassy, Athens (1961, Athens, Greece
)
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