Walter Gropius House

This house, built by Walter Gropius for himself and his family in Lincoln, Mass., has become one of the most influential works of architecture of the mid-20 th century. Its construction, he began simultaneously with the beginning of educational work in America, at Harvard University. Immediately after the house has caused huge interest among the architectural community and the local population – people come from all around to look at a hybrid of traditional New England aesthetic and modernist teachings of the Bauhaus. For hundreds of miles all around was nothing like that. And yet this house with its flat roof, a veranda, American-style, which appeared in the space of the original paneling – boards were arranged vertically, rather than, as usual, the horizontal – and the big windows on the merits was akin to local traditions. Gropius himself said that this house has become a point of concentration of its own concept, he absorbed those traditional features of the architecture of New England, which he believed were still alive and are adequate, it merged with the regional and spirit of the modern approach to the design and construction of housing: “This house I would never be built in Europe, with its very different climatic, technical and psychological background.” As for the interior home, Gropius decided not to take into account local traditions, it is a mixture of ready-made pieces of furniture and fittings from the Bauhaus and Marcel Breuer (Marcel Breuer).