The Gropius House (1938) in Lincoln, Mass., an affluent Boston suburb. Walter Gropius (1883-1969), founder of the famous German design school the Bauhaus, designed the house, now a museum, as his family home after he came to teach architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design after fleeing Nazi Germany.
“Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.’’
— Walter Gropius
Historic New England says:
“Gropius House {now a museum} combined traditional elements of New England architecture—wood, brick, and fieldstone—with innovative materials including glass block, acoustical plaster, chrome banisters, and the latest technology in fixtures. It features furniture designed by Marcel Breuer and fabricated in Bauhaus workshops. With the family’s possessions still in place, Gropius House has a sense of immediacy and intimacy.’’
