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AllRefer.com - Walter Gropius (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia (352 words) |
 | Walter Gropius[vAl´tur grO´pEoos] Pronunciation Key, 1883–1969, German-American architect, one of the leaders of modern functional architecture. |
| His influence on the dissemination of functional architectural theory and the rise of the International style was immense. |
| He continued his architectural activity with this group, the Architects Collaborative (TAC), in such works as the U.S. embassy at Athens, the Univ. of Baghdad (1961), and the Grand Central City building, New York City (1963). |
| Japanese architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (1008 words) |
| Evidence of prehistoric architecture in Japan has survived in the form of models of terra-cotta houses buried in tombs and by remains of pit houses of the Jomon, the neolithic people of Japan. |
| These buildings illustrate the first epoch of Japanese architecture (6th–8th cent.), which was characterized by gravity, frankness of construction, and simple, vital compositions, sparsely ornamented. |
| As in Greek and Chinese architecture, little use is made of diagonal members, and the framing is almost exclusively a system of uprights and horizontals. |
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