ABSTRACT
Walter Adolph Gropius was born on May 18, 1883 into a family with an architectural and artistic tradition in Berlin, Germany. Considered one of the founders of modern architecture, Gropius worked to make architecture and art responsive to the needs of an urbanized and industrialized society. His major projects were in urban and industrial architecture and in industrial design. He designed educational programs in both modern architecture and industrial design. Finding the curriculum at the Technical Institute in Berlin irrelevant, Gropius continued his architectural training in Munich but failed to take the degree. Two innovative designs, modern in the sense of being free of eclecticism and ornamentation, established Gropius as one of Europe's outstanding young architects. Architecture involved with technology, science, other arts, economic and social utility, and the c. To this should be added the psychological element, for Gropius was convinced that art or beauty was part of the human psyche, as was a relationship to nature.
