Readers of this book will better understand why many of his works have become true milestones for 20th-century architecture.
For the lucid, provocative reconstruction of the career of Walter Gropius presented in this volume Winfried Nerdinger starts with the disarming pages of his youthful correspondence, retracing the entire trajectory of a personality destined to enjoy extraordinary success and prestige. Nerdinger pays particular attention to the work conducted in Germany before the emigration to England (1934) and then to the United States, supplying a philologically documented overview of the main constructed works and most important projects of Gropius, and curiosities regarding his contorted, for the most part “spoken” design methods. Readers of this book will better understand why many of his works have become true milestones for 20th-century architecture.