Future facades
Walter Gropius, visionary of the Bauhaus and beyond

Walter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geometry, and industrial design, as dazzling today as it was a century ago.

In this essential architect introduction, we survey the evolution and influence of a 20th-century visionary with 20 of his most...