Table of Contents

Part 1: Education of Architects and Designers 1. Approach 2. My Conception of the Bauhaus Idea 3. Is There Science in Design? 4. Blueprint of an Architect’s Education Part 2: The Contemporary Architect 5. Appraisal of the Development of Modern Architecture 6. Archaeology or Architecture for Contemporary Buildings? 7. The Architect Within Our Industrial Society 8. Architect – Servant or Leader? Part 3: Planning and Housing 9. CIAM 1928-1953 10. Sociological Premises for the Minimum Dwelling of Urban Industrial Populations 11. Houses, Walk-Ups or High-Rise Apartment Blocks? 12. Organic Neighbourhood Planning 13. Problems of the ‘Core’ (Community Centre) 14. Housing Industry 15. A Way Out of the Housing Confusion Part 4: Scope of Total Architecture.

About the Author

Walter Gropius was one of the pioneers of Modernist Architecture and the founder of the Bauhaus School.