PP/24/14/115 - [Letter, Ise Gropius to Alan Maynard, 17/9/73]

PP/24/14/115

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[Letter, Ise Gropius to Alan Maynard, 17/9/73]

1973

3 leaves Letters (typescript)

Fry, Maxwell
Breuer, Marcel
Meyer, Adolf
Davies, Llewelyn (of Allan King Associates)
Davies, Mary (of Allan King Associates)
Cvijanovic Alex
Rosenthal, Philip
Eckardt, Wolf von
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Behrens, Peter, 1868-1940
Isaacs, Reginald R. 1911-1986

Bauhaus
Goethe-Institut (Boston, Mass.)
International Exhibitions Foundation
Fogg Art Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Allan King Associates
Busch-Reisinger Museum
Bauhaus-Archiv (Berlin)
Harvard University -- Graduate School of Design
Feder furniture units
Alder Cabriolet Automobile Bodies
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Gropius House (Lincoln, Mass.)

Gropius, Ise.
Maynard, Alanrecipient

Discusses at length various aspects of the Gropius exhibition.

Discussion of Gropius and his works includes the division of his books between the Harvard Germanic Museum (Busch-Reisinger), the Bauhaus-Archiv and the Harvard School of Design; Gropius' prefabrication ideas with named examples; the Feder Furniture Units and Adler Cabriolet [Car bodies]; Philip Rosenthal and the [Bauhaus] tea and coffee sets; and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities taking over the Gropius House.

Attached is an extract from 'Progressive Architecture' by Wolf V. Eckardt which mentions the role of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius in architecture

Ise also mentions Peter Behrens and Professor Reginald Isaacs