“Now, for the first time, when I have reached 70, things look safe for a while,” said Architect Walter Gropius on his birthday last week. “At long last, I am beginning to build much more than was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Letter, typed, with ink annotations, ...

Sarah Pillsbury Harkness designed the house in 1938 at age 24. Pillsbury Harkness went on to found The Architects Collaborative with six others in 1945. Its principal was Walter Gropius, the ...

When amateurs of the arts think of outstanding modern architects, the names most likely to pop into their minds are Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Miës van der Rohe. If they know of ...

IN MANCHESTER, BY THE SEA, THE RIDGE HOUSE MAKES A STATEMENT ON MASSACHUSETTS NORTH SHORE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY IS WE KNEW YOU WERE ECCENTRIC AND NOW WE’VE CONFIRMED THAT YOU WERE ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Walter Gropius. Letter from Walter ...

Embassy of the United States in Athens, Greece; Courtesy of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations The Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) ...

8.4 x 10.8 cm. (3.3 x 4.3 in.) ...

The humble shoe, literally our lowest item of clothing, must fit us perfectly. Our body protests loudly if it does not. Still, it is taking perfectionism to the extreme to insist that the buildings of ...