That seems an odd thing to say about such an apparently straightforward architect.
Walter gropius door handles.
May 13 2013 walter gropius was a german architect and founder of the bauhaus school and is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture and design.
A door handle or doorknob is a handle used to open or close a door.
This is a version of the wgl01 handle designed by walter gropius and one of the most influential of all modernist door handles.
This version is in matt black bronze and replaces the original square rose with a round one.
He studied architecture at the beginning of the twentieth century before entering the design bureau of peter behrens in 1907 along with mies van der rohe and corbusier.
Door handles can be found on all types of doors including exterior doors of residential and commercial buildings internal doors cupboard doors and vehicle doors.
Walter gropius who would design the handle that became the most complete expression of modernism in 1923.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
Architect designed archetypal modernist pull handle walter gropius designed this pull handle as a companion to his lever handle first put into mass production in 1923 and the most influential of all modernist door handles.
Gift of jo carole and ronald s.
Lever handle walter gropius.
The original was first put into mass production in 1923.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
Based on a square and a cylindrical section the lever is an amalgam of the platonic geometry.
Reyner banham predicted bafflement in any attempt to sum up walter gropius.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
This door handle and the corresponding window handle by walter gropius were almost certainly designed 1923 but not manufactured by the berlin company s a.
2 3 8 x 7 3 4 x 6 6 x 19 7 x 15 2 cm mounted on wood base 10 x 4 3 4 x 3 3 8 25 4 x 12 1 x 8 6 cm.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
Door handles can be the first and only part of a building we touch but their design is all too often an afterthought writes edwin heathcote.
Walter gropius adolf meyer.
Like all izé luxury door hardware the pull handle is available in the full range of izé materials.
The bauhaus reduced even to its own door handles is considered to be gropius greatest achievements.
Peter behrens walter gropius and antoni gaudi all produced handle designs.
