A stunning visual biography of the life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and one of the world's most influential architects 
This illustrated biography tells the story of Gropius's life, beginning with his shattering experiences in World War One, his turbulent marriage to the notorious Alma Mahler, the establishment of the Bauhaus, and the tragic death of their daughter Manon. 
After Gropius's agonized decision to leave Nazi Germany in 1933, the book explores his life in exile in London and then his move to America in 1937, where he lived and worked until his death in 1969. 
Features more than 375 illustrations including letters, telegrams, sketches, drawings, photographs, posters, brochures, and other ephemera. The authors present the life of Walter Gropius as not just a key figure of 20th-century architecture, but as an extraordinarily generous person - a connector, protector, and benefactor who improved the lives and careers of all those with whom he came into contact. 
This is the first comprehensive illustrated biography of one of Modern architecture's most important figures.

Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography

Arts & Photography

Englund, Magnus

Daybelge, Leyla

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

Featuring many never-before-seen images, this fascinating look at England’s famed Isokon building and the renownedartists who lived there coincides with the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Bauhaus in 1919.   In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modernist movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building (as it came to be known), was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934, it was England’s first Modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. Here is the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day, with an in-depth examination of the work, artistic networks, and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. These enthralling tales are not just about design and architecture, but about war, espionage, death, sex . . . and infamous dinner parties. Isokon resident Agatha Christie features in the story as does architect Le Corbusier, who Jack Pritchard commissioned in 1925. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography—much of which has been previously unseen—this compelling book includes the work of photographer and Soviet spy Edith Tudor-Hart, as well as plans and sketches, menus, postcards, and letters from the Pritchard family archive.

Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain

Batsford

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