Designed by Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. (Wiki)

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Berlin Modernism Housing Estates He was one of a group of Architects working on Siemensstadt. Individual rows of houses within the overall plan were handed out to each architect to design and Gropius developed 2 in the eastern section of Siemensstadt at Jungfernheideweg.
Fagus Factory The factory was designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer.

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