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Walter Gropius was born in Berlin, Germany
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Gropius went to the Technical Institutes in Munich to study architecture.
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Gropius joined Peter Behrens to work with him in his studio
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Gropius, Adolf Meyer, and Eduard Werner designed and built the Fagus Factor with modernist designs
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Gropius joined the German Labour League
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Gropius became the master of Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts
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Gropius redesigned the Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts into the Bauhaus for a learning experience for his students
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Gropius and his wife left Germany to live in England after Hitler's Government shut down the Bauhaus in 1933.
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Gropius moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and became a professor at Harvard University.
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Gropius and Marcel Breuer designed Gropius and his families home in Massachusetts
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Gropius became vice president of General Panel Corporation.
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Gropius and six former students created The Architects Collaborative
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Gropius retired from his chairman of the department position at Harvard and his vice president spot in General Panel Corporation.
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Gropius and TAC created the US Embassy in Athens
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Gropius oversaw the construction of the Gropiusstadt neighborhood (Britz-Buckow-Rudow) in Berlin, Germany.
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Gropius designed this government office in the name of John F. Kennedy.
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Walter Gropius died at the age of 86 at his home in Cambridge Massachusetts. He was known as one of the pioneers of modernistic architecture.
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