Art: Everybody's Baby

Speaking in New Orleans in 1959, Architect Walter Gropius, then 76, sadly noted: "I have been 'nobody's baby' during just those years of middle life which normally bring a man to the apex of his career, when seed sown earlier should have come to fruition." True enough, the man who in 1919 founded the Bauhaus, and who later transformed Harvard's Graduate School of Design into one of the finest architectural schools in the U.S., had been asked to build comparatively little. But for once in his life, Walter Gropius turned out to be a...

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