Walter Gropius (1883–1969) founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919, creating the most influential design school of the 20th century. The catalogue holds 7 of his works, all in Germany, spanning industrial, educational, residential, and museum buildings.
The Fagus Factory (1913) in Alfeld, designed with Adolf Meyer, introduced the glass curtain wall that would define modern architecture. The Dessau Bauhaus (1926) and adjacent Masters' Houses are the school's architectural manifesto. In Berlin, Gropius contributed to the Siemensstadt housing estate (1931) — a Neues Bauen model of worker housing — and the Bauhaus-Archiv (designed 1964, built posthumously), which houses the school's legacy in a distinctive saw-tooth roofline.
