Walter Gropius, Gropius House, Lincoln, USA, 1937

Date:March 19, 2014

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Walter Gropius, Gropius House, Lincoln, USA, 1937

The Gropius House was the family residence of noted architect Walter Gropius at lincoln, USA. It was designed in 1937 and built in 1938 and it was Gropius’s family home when he came to Massachusetts to teach architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Gropius used his new home as a showcase for his Harvard students as well as an example of modernist landscape architecture in America. Keeping with Bauhaus philosophy, every aspect of the house and its surrounding landscape was planned for maximum efficiency and simplicity.

The house structure consists of a traditional New England post and beam wooden frame, sheathed with white painted tongue and grove vertical siding. Traditional clapboards are used in the interior foyer, but are applied vertically. Gropius House mixes up the traditional elements of New England architecture — wood, brick, and fieldstone — with innovative materials rarely used in domestic settings at that time, including glass block, acoustical plaster, chrome banisters, and the latest technology in fixtures. The house contains a significant collection of furniture designed by Marcel Breuer and fabricated in the Bauhaus workshops.