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==Selected buildings== * 1906 granary in Jankowo, Western Pomerania, Poland<ref>{{cite web | url=https://zabytek.pl/pl/obiekty/jankowo-spichlerz | title=Spichlerz |website=Zabytek.pl |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230310174504/https://zabytek.pl/pl/obiekty/jankowo-spichlerz |archive-date= 10 March 2023 }}</ref> * 1910–1911 the [[Fagus Factory]], Alfeld an der Leine, Germany * 1914 Office and Factory Buildings at the Werkbund Exhibition, 1914, [[Cologne]], Germany * 1921 [[Sommerfeld House]], Berlin, Germany designed for [[Adolf Sommerfeld]] * 1922 competition entry for the [[Tribune Tower|Chicago Tribune Tower]] competition * 1925–1932 [[Bauhaus]] School and Meisterhäuser (houses for senior staff), [[Dessau]], Germany * 1926–1928 Törten housing estate in Dessau.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/de/index.html|title=Das Bauhaus in Dessau|website= bauhaus-dessau.de|language=de|access-date=19 May 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190519150912/https://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/de/index.html |archive-date= 19 May 2019 }}</ref> * 1927–1929 Dessau Employment Office (Arbeitsamt). * 1936 [[Impington Village College|Village College]], Impington, Cambridgeshire, England * 1936 [[66 Old Church Street, Chelsea]], London, England * 1937 The [[Gropius House]], Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA * 1939 [[Waldenmark]], Wrightstown Township, Pennsylvania (with Marcel Breuer) * 1939–1940 The [[The Alan I W Frank House|Alan I W Frank House]], Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (with Marcel Breuer) * 1942–1944 [[Aluminum City Terrace]] housing project, [[New Kensington]], Pennsylvania, USA * 1945–1959 [[Michael Reese Hospital]], Chicago, Illinois, USA – Master planned {{convert|37|acre|m2|adj=on}} site and led the design for at least 8 of the approx. 28 buildings.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mertens|first=Richard|date=20 August 2009|title=Battle to Save Chicago's Gropius Architecture has Preservationists and City at Odds.|journal=Christian Science Monitor|pages=17|via=ProQuest}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Martin |first=Schmidt, Garden and |title=Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, Detail and Elevation |date=1900–1910 |url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/131645/michael-reese-hospital-chicago-illinois-detail-and-elevation |access-date=12 November 2022 |archive-date=12 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112091823/https://www.artic.edu/artworks/131645/michael-reese-hospital-chicago-illinois-detail-and-elevation |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} * 1949–1950 [[Harvard Graduate Center]], Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (The Architects' Collaborative)<ref>[http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Harvard_Graduate_Center.html Harvard Graduate Center – Walter Gropius – Great Buildings Online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050828091333/http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Harvard_Graduate_Center.html |date=28 August 2005 }}. greatbuildings.com</ref> * 1957–1960 [[University of Baghdad]], Baghdad, Iraq * 1963–1966 [[John F. Kennedy Federal Building|John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building]], Boston, Massachusetts, USA * 1948 [[Peter Thacher Junior High School]], * 1957–1959 Dr. and Mrs. Carl Murchison House, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA (The Architects' Collaborative) * 1958–1963 [[Pan Am Building]] (now the Metlife Building), [[New York City|New York]], with [[Pietro Belluschi]] and project architects [[Emery Roth]] & Sons * 1957 [[Interbau]] [[Walter-Gropius-Haus (Berlin)|Apartment blocks, Hansaviertel (Walter-Gropius-Haus) Berlin]], Germany, with The Architects' Collaborative and Wils Ebert * 1960 [[Temple Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, Maryland)]] * 1960 the [[Gropiusstadt]] building complex, Berlin, Germany * 1961 The award-winning [[Wayland High School]], Wayland, Massachusetts, USA (demolished 2012) * 1959–1961 [[Embassy of the United States in Athens|Embassy of the United States]], Athens, Greece (The Architects' Collaborative and consulting architect [[Pericles A. Sakellarios]]) * 1968 Glass Cathedral, Thomas Glassworks, [[Amberg]] * 1967–1969 [[Tower East]], Shaker Heights, Ohio, was Gropius's last major project. * 1968–1970 [[Huntington Museum of Art]], Huntington, West Virginia, USA. Original building expanded with Gropius addition with little alteration to the original structure. Only American art museum to be brought to completion using a Gropius design. * 1973–1980 [[Porto Carras]], at Chalkidiki, Greece, was built posthumously from Gropius designs, it is one of the largest holiday resorts in Europe. NB: The building in [[Niederkirchnerstraße]], Berlin known as the Gropius-Bau is named for Gropius's great-uncle, [[Martin Gropius]], and is not associated with the Bauhaus. ===Gallery=== <gallery> File:Dessau Bauhaus-Gebäude asv2024-06 img1.jpg|[[Bauhaus]] Dessau building, built 1925–1926 File:Walter Gropius photo Gropius house Lincoln MA.jpg|Gropius House (1938) in Lincoln, Massachusetts File:Reception stair.jpg|The Alan I W Frank House File:Aluminum City Terrace, Gropius, HAER PA,65-NEKEN,3-2.jpg|Aluminum City Terrace (1944) File:6355 Dessau 01.JPG|Front view of the modern reconstruction of Gropius's house in Dessau (1925-–1926). It was destroyed during World War II. This reconstruction (2014) was not built as an exact replica of the original house. File:Damaschkestraße, Dessau (Siedlung Törten).jpg|Part of the Törten Housing Estate (Siedlung Dessau-Törten) designed by Gropius (1926–1928) File:Arbeitsamt Dessau3.JPG|Dessau Employment Office (Arbeitsamt) designed by Gropius in 1927 and built between 1928 and 1929 File:Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts - Front View.JPG|The Gropius House (1938) in Lincoln Massachusetts </gallery>
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