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In the Bauhaus train of thought, LESS IS MORE. Think of how much easier life is when this philosophy is utilized? The brainchild behind the Bauhaus movement was Walter Gropius. Any and all Industrial Designers know him as the grandaddy of modern design. Look at the work and the ideas he forged in the 1930′s. WOW.
“Walter Gropius (1883-1969) was a celebrated German architect and teacher, founder of the school of design known as the Bauhaus in Germany, and a leading proponent of modern architecture. “
“This house was his first architectural commission in the United States, built in 1938 as his family home after coming to the US to teach at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. This was Walter Gropius’s home from 1938 until his death in 1969.” (Text courtesy of The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities).
Well I was fortunate enough to be a guide at this house in the early 1990s. Situated in a very conservative and traditionally wealthy Boston suburb (Lexington MA), the Gropius House sits amongst traditional, colonial style mansions. It is a sore thumb- however it is a piece de resistance, a piece of beauty. It exemplifies simplicity.
Less is more…
Trip Allen of the Egyii team
