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Also Known As Walter Adolph Gropius
Born May 18, 1883 • Berlin • Germany
Died July 5, 1969 (aged 86) • Boston • Massachusetts
Founder Bauhaus • The Architects Collaborative
Movement / Style International Style • Novembergruppe
Notable Family Members spouse Alma Mahler
Subjects Of Study architecture

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Egon Eiermann
German architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Mendelsohn, Erich: Einstein Tower
Erich Mendelsohn
German architect
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
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British architect
Le Corbusier
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Mexican architect and muralist
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H.H. Richardson
American architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
John Hope
John Hope
American educator
Cram, Ralph Adams
Ralph Adams Cram
American architect and writer
McKim, Charles Follen; Mead, William Rutherford; White, Stanford
Stanford White
American architect
Griffin, Walter Burley
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and city planner
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
American architect
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Bernard Maybeck
American architect

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