Gropius (born in 1883) worked with Peter Behrens until 1910. He was studied the works and
gained an influence by Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.
In 1919 Gropius became the director of the Bauhaus School in Germany; the school's motto was "Art and Technology the New Unity". At the school, Gropius introduced a new approach to design education in joining art and industry.
He wrote several articles such as "The development of Modern Industrial Architecture" in 1913 and "Idee und Aufbau" (Idea and Construction) in 1923. The Bauhaus curriculum included study in stone, wood, metal, clay, glass, pigments, and textile looms. The program combined the study of nature, materials, geometry, construction, drawing, color and composition.
In 1928 he resigned from the Bauhaus and in 1937 Gropius taught students such as I.M Pei and Philip Johnson at Harvard University. He retired this career in 1952. While at Harvard he and several students formed TAC - The Architects Collaborative in 1946. TAC has also built some famous, innovative, and important structures in modern architecture.
Gropius believed consider a total visual environment. He believed in a
systematic method of production and creation of architecture. Gropius rarely
used previous styles and materials. Instead, he focused on modern materials and techniques
because he wanted to find common ground between business, technology, and the
imaginative mind.
"We amassed such a tremendous arsenal of techniques that their bristling display has nearly robbed us of our sense of balance. Our cities have taken on the look of a free-for-all, wild competition to engage mind, heart and body of its
populace."
Gropius changed the way architecture is taught. He wrote: "New times demand their own expression. Exactly stamped form devoid of all accident, clear contrast. The ordering of members the arrangement of like parts in series, unity of form
color an appropriate style reliant on economics an human life."