 This house was built by Walter Gropius in 1938. Gropius, who was founder of the Bauhaus design school in Germany, constructed this home when he went to teach at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. The house also contains a large furniture collection by Marcel Breuer. The pieces were fabricated in the Bauhaus workshops. The property is owned by Historic New England. 

Gropius House

The house was made traditional New England materic

David Fixler talks about the influence of Walter Gropius. He was important in raising the profile of Modernism in Boston and the United States which he developed at the Bauhaus in Germany.

David Fixler discusses Walter Gropius's house that he constructed. The irony is that Gropius wanted to throw out histories in schools, but now his house and designs are fully integrated as part of the cannon of architectural history. 

Architect David Fixler discusses the upswing of designing Modern Houses during the middle of the 19th century outside of Boston. 