This door handle and the corresponding window handle by walter gropius were almost certainly designed 1923 but not manufactured by the berlin company s a.
Walter gropius door handle history.
Reyner banham predicted bafflement in any attempt to sum up walter gropius.
That seems an odd thing to say about such an apparently straightforward architect.
Walter gropius adolf meyer.
At a lecture in hanover germany.
Walter gropius who would design the handle that became the most complete expression of modernism in 1923.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
Walter adolph georg gropius 18 may 1883 5 july 1969 was a german architect and founder of the bauhaus school who along with alvar aalto ludwig mies van der rohe le corbusier and frank lloyd wright is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture he is a founder of bauhaus in weimar 1919.
Walter and ise gropius met in 1923.
This door handle and the corresponding window handle by walter gropius were almost certainly designed 1923 but not manufactured by the berlin company s a.
Gropius was also a leading architect of the international style.
He studied architecture at the beginning of the twentieth century before entering the design bureau of peter behrens in 1907 along with mies van der rohe and corbusier.
Door handles can be the first and only part of a building we touch but their design is all too often an afterthought writes edwin heathcote.
2 3 8 x 7 3 4 x 6 6 x 19 7 x 15 2 cm mounted on wood base 10 x 4 3 4 x 3 3 8 25 4 x 12 1 x 8 6 cm.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
My favourite modernist steel door handles and their designers.
Gropius was born on18th may 1883 and he passed away on july 5th 1969.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
Gift of jo carole and ronald s.
The bauhaus reduced even to its own door handles is considered to be gropius greatest achievements.
Door and window handles designed by walter gropius walter gropius was born in 1883 and to this day is regarded as one of the paragons of classic bauhaus design.
Points of contact a short history of door handles.
Door handles can also be called handle sets.
Walter gropius a german architect industrial designer and teacher was the founder of the renowned bauhaus school in weimar.
In addition there are door handles that are flush mount and require pressing rather than turning or gripping and there are touch free electronic and motion sensor door handles.
Ise at that time ise frank was a middle class girl engaged to be married to secure her family s financial stability one evening she attended a scholarly talk about a new artistic movement called the bauhaus that accepted both male and female students.