Architecture in the Age of Science

Abstract As Founding Director of the Bauhaus and Chairman of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Walter Gropius was one of the most important architectural educators of the twentieth century. In this postwar article Gropius argues for architecture as a collective enterprise rather than as the work of the divinely gifted and inspired individual. The example he cites is The Architects’ Collaborative, which he established in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1945. In this collaboration of a group of independently minded spirits on the same design project, Gropius envisions a fusion of art, science, and economics as the architecture paradigm of the future.