Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus Joshua Abbott and there is a chapter

and there is a chapter on the atmospheric brutalist sculptures and murals that dot our cities

Each building is presented with detailed analysis

Walter Gropius

Gunta Stölzl

By Daria Santini

Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus Joshua Abbott and there is a chapterPaperback, 560 pages By Fiona MacCarthy Mention the Bauhaus and iconic objects such as a Marianne Brandt teapot, an Anni Albers weaving or a Marcel Breuer chair leap to mind. But the Bauhaus was more than an art school it was the birth of a radical new philosophy of design: a constellation of talents including Kandinsky, Klee and Moholy Nagy, at the heart of which was Walter Gropius. Celebrated biographer Fiona MacCarthy grippingly narrates the story