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Welcome to the 5th episode of The Architect's Purpose Podcast!

This episode is all about the man who built the Bauhaus: Walter Gropius. This titan of history is often overshadowed or, at best, not discussed enough that the average architects has heard about him, but this single person, set into motion, not only the industrial nature of our built environment, but also the pedagogy which sparked the idea of an holistic approach to education, versus a singular specialization.

When Gropius founded the Bauhaus (which is currently revered as a pinnacle of architectural education), there was no offering of architecture, but rather a study of all things that make us human: visual arts, dance, performance art, science, the study of materials, etc)

Even after the architectural courses were introduced, it required rigorous study of a broad range of architectural aspects before one could even begin designing a building.

Contrast this with some schools who just start off with a design project with no idea of how to research and study the problem.

Topics Discussed:

Walter Gropious

The life of Gropius

Gropius and Behrens (and Mies)

Great men have great relationship troubles

Mies couldn't of been Mies without Gropius

Bauhaus parties (Beaux Arts Ball)

The bauhaus was about the visual arts, performance art, dance, all it is to be human

Nobody had ever done

Industrial vs homey

Gropious’ life long struggle for workers housing

Frank lloyd wright usonian house

Dessau

Animal farm

We are still modeling what the bauhaus tried to do

Gropious created this environment that vitruvius  was talking about

Don’t be limited to just architecture

Architecture encompasses all other kinds of art

Taliessen of Frank Lloyd Wright vs bauhaus of gropius

-FLW tried to create copies

-G tried to create thinkers

Is suburbia the only option?

European ideology vs american ideology

Reinvent the american dream

Leon and Ron Krier

New Urbanism

Live-Work-Play- in the same communities

The birth of city zoning - modernism

Gropius’s Legacy

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