Editing Walter Gropius (section)

===The Architects Collaborative===
In 1945, Gropius was asked by the young founding members of [[The Architects Collaborative]] (TAC) to join as their senior partner.<ref name="Cox-2021">{{cite AV media |people=Wendy, Cox |date=17 June 2021 |title=Sarah Pillsbury Harkness: Legacy of Craft within Modernism |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aRCoWsLG4 |format=recorded lecture |time=00:04:10 minutes |location= |publisher=Historic New England |quote= |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125153235/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aRCoWsLG4 |url-status=live }}</ref> TAC represented a manifestation of his lifelong belief in the significance of teamwork, which he had already successfully introduced at the Bauhaus. Based in Cambridge, the original TAC partners included [[Norman C. Fletcher]], [[Jean B. Fletcher]], [[John C. Harkness]], [[Sarah P. Harkness]], [[Robert S. MacMillan]], Louis A. MacMillen, and [[Benjamin C. Thompson]]. Among TAC's earliest works were two residential housing developments in [[Lexington, Massachusetts]]: [[Six Moon Hill]] and [[Five Fields]]. Each incorporated contemporary design ideas, reasonable cost, and practical thinking about how to support community life. Another early TAC work is the Graduate Center of [[Harvard University]] in Cambridge (1949/50).<ref name="http://bauhaus-online.de">[http://bauhaus-online.de/en/atlas/personen/walter-gropius "Walter Gropius"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401100516/http://bauhaus-online.de/en/atlas/personen/walter-gropius |date=1 April 2014 }}. bauhaus-online.de.</ref> TAC would become one of the most well-known and respected architectural firms in the world before it closed its doors amidst financial problems in 1995.

In 1967, Gropius was elected into the [[National Academy of Design]] as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1968.