Gropius Family Video: Walter's Birthday, 1969
Digitized film footage of Walter Gropius' 86th birthday at his family home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Now known as Gropius House, the modernist home was designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius as his family home when he moved to the United States in the 1930s to teach at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
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Gropius Family Video: Christmas 1964
Digitized film footage of the Gropius family's 1964 Christmas celebration at their home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Now known as Gropius House, the modernist home was designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius as his family home when he moved to the United States in the 1930s to teach at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
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Gropius Family Video: Christmas 1963
Digitized film footage of the Gropius family's 1963 Christmas celebration at their home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Now known as Gropius House, the modernist home was designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius as his family home when he moved to the United States in the 1930s to teach at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
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The Visitors - deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum & Gropius House October 13th 2012
The Visitors - deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum & Gropius House October 13th 2012
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Julian de Cordova, a Boston businessman, had a personal collection of visual arts which he often opened to the public. He donated his property to the town of Lincoln in 1930 with the condition that it become a public museum of art after his death. De Cordova died in 1945, and the trustees he appointed determined that it should focus on living regional artists and art education,[2] and established the DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in 1948. It opened to the public in 1950. The founding director of the museum was Frederick P. Walkey, whose innovative concepts for a regional museum of living art combined with art festivals, camps, and classes, helped establish a new model for small regional museums in the United States.[3] It was popularly known as the DeCordova Museum, and officially changed its name to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in 2009.
Its highlight is a 35-acre (140,000 m2) park overlooking Flint's Pond (also known as Sandy Pond) with approximately 60 outdoor sculptures and installations; it also has several indoor galleries with a rotating series of special exhibitions, gift shop, cafe, and function spaces. The park's permanent collection is small but important, including works by Antony Gormley, George Rickey, Alexander Liberman, Nam June Paik, Dan Graham and others. Additionally, prominent works by Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sol LeWitt, Gary Webb, Jaume Plensa, Jim Dine and other artists are displayed on rotating loan, and the park features rotating installations of new and site-specific contemporary work.
Walter Gropius, founder of the German design school known as the Bauhaus, was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. He designed Gropius House built in 1938 as his family home when he came to Massachusetts to teach architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
Modest in scale, the house was revolutionary in impact. It combined the traditional elements of New England architecture—wood, brick, and fieldstone—with innovative materials rarely used in domestic settings at that time, including glass block, acoustical plaster, chrome banisters, and the latest technology in fixtures.
In keeping with Bauhaus philosophy, every aspect of the house and its surrounding landscape was planned for maximum efficiency and simplicity of design. The house contains a significant collection of furniture designed by Marcel Breuer and fabricated in the Bauhaus workshops. With the family's possessions still in place, Gropius House has a sense of immediacy and intimacy.
A Foot Note: And we as the Visitors enjoyed every moment. Silly as we may have been we were admirers of the arts & exhibits present. We enjoyed our day roaming the grounds freely & expressing our opinions some silly some serious. But it all came down to we appreciated the time we were able to view others works and later come upon another gem of the town the Gropius House. I love architecture & It was a wonderful day for the family.
Another foot note: It was a busy day for chemtrails that day and all month. I have footage of the sky almost everyday leading up to today. We had signature clouds of haarp activity so how hard is it for people to just get it that things r not always brought on by mother nature and that there could possibly be others at play here. Look at what the artist create on small & large scales. What do you think scientist or leaders do for entertainment. And not to leave out it was the eve of another Presidential debate? Are they that stupid to think oh yes that will throw us off?
Just saying and as I posted this film tonight. We experienced an Earthquake 0f a 4.6 Mag.
Marcel Breuer IAS Housing
Marcel Breuer designed housing at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. with larger windows in back, angular stairs to cat walk, built 1957.
31 Moon Hill Road | Lexington Massachusetts
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This is a rare and wonderful opportunity to own an architectural gem, designed by The Architects Collaborative (TAC), and located at 31 Moon Hill Road in a most coveted neighborhood, in Lexington, Massachusetts.
This house was designed by Robert McMillan in 1950, and later expanded with a front entry addition designed by Norman Fletcher; both were original founding partners of TAC. This is a chance to step into a pure, unadulterated Modern masterpiece as only its second owner. The well-maintained four-bedroom home celebrates the beauty of natural materials -- redwood paneling; a large flagstone fireplace; original kitchen with cherry counters; walls of glass; and spacious decks that meld the interior spaces to the landscape.
The open and thoughtful layout is all that a family could ask for. Two children's bedrooms with fabulous sliding walls open up directly to a large family room. The master bedroom suite features built-in bureaus and ample storage. The home has a lower-level bedroom that leads to a brick terrace and adjoins a third full bathroom.
The convenient pantry off the kitchen and large first-floor laundry and workshop rooms reveal the understanding TAC designers had of how families truly live and work -- ideas that are as fresh today as when they were conceived.
The house sits at the highest point in the Six Moon Hill neighborhood and has a commanding view over the terraces; garden spaces; rock outcroppings; and exquisite, natural landscaping that make up the .65 acre lot. Avid gardeners will also appreciate the home's attached greenhouse. The property is approached from Moon Hill Road by a stone walkway or by car from Bird Hill Road.
The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded on principals of collaboration with Walter Gropius, head of the Architecture Department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the original founder of the Bauhaus in Germany. The partners wanted to bring this model of collaboration beyond their business into how they lived, so they purchased 20 acres of land for this residential development in 1948. Six Moon Hill got its name at the time of purchase from a garage on the site that housed six cars manufactured by the Moon Motor Car Company.
All but two of the 28 houses in Moon Hill were designed by TAC architects, who also remained as residents -- some to this day. Many of the houses, over time, have been expanded while keeping the character of the original designs.
Sally Zimmerman of Historic New England writes: Conceived from the start as an experiment in community living and centered on principles of naturalistic siting, good architectural design, cooperative control, and shared amenities and common land, Six Moon Hill is architecturally and historically one of the most significant post-World War II suburban residential enclaves in the United States.
The development was lauded in its own time, and was featured in a 1954 Vogue magazine article as well as in numerous design and architectural publications.
Current residents of Six Moon Hill still enjoy a strong sense of community and benefit from shared amenities, including common open land and a community pool. The cul-de-sac's quiet location in the midst of Lexington and its close proximity to shops and highly rated schools make living here a dream come true.
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 modern architecture.
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INSIGHT: Dennis Kois - Executive Director, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Dennis Kois discusses fostering the creation, exhibition, and exploration of contemporary sculpture and art through collections, learning opportunities, and a unique park setting.
High School Quiz Show Governors Cup: Massachusetts vs. New Hampshire (616)
In the 3rd annual Governors Cup Challenge, the High School Quiz Show Massachusetts champion (Advanced Math & Science Academy) faces off against the Granite State Challenge champion from New Hampshire (Bishop Guertin High School)!
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Modern architecture | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:39 1 Origins
00:03:55 2 Early modernism in Europe (1900–1914)
00:10:14 3 Early American modernism (1890s–1914)
00:11:48 3.1 Early skyscrapers
00:13:29 4 Rise of Modernism in Europe and Russia (1918–1931)
00:14:35 4.1 International Style (1918–1950s)
00:17:00 4.2 Bauhaus and the German Werkbund (1919–1932)
00:20:25 4.3 Expressionist architecture (1918–1931)
00:25:22 4.4 Constructivist architecture (1919–1931)
00:29:23 4.5 Modernism becomes a movement: CIAM (1928)
00:32:46 5 Art Deco
00:34:58 5.1 American Art Deco; the skyscraper style (1919–1939)
00:36:47 5.2 Streamline style and Public Works Administration (1933–1939)
00:38:40 6 American modernism - Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra (1919–1939)
00:41:11 7 Paris International Exposition of 1937 and the architecture of dictators
00:44:21 8 New York World's Fair (1939)
00:45:20 9 World War II: wartime innovation and postwar reconstruction (1939–1945)
00:48:16 10 Le Corbusier and the iCité Radieuse/i (1947–1952)
00:50:02 11 Postwar modernism in the United States (1945–1985)
00:50:59 11.1 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim Museum
00:53:13 11.2 Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
00:54:35 11.3 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
00:56:25 11.4 Richard Neutra and Charles & Ray Eames
00:58:19 11.5 Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Wallace K. Harrison
01:00:49 11.6 Philip Johnson
01:02:12 11.7 Eero Saarinen
01:04:57 11.8 Louis Kahn
01:06:55 11.9 I. M. Pei
01:10:17 12 Postwar modernism in Europe (1945–1975)
01:13:56 13 Latin America
01:17:41 14 Asia and the Pacific
01:20:51 15 Preservation
01:22:03 16 See also
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Modern architecture, or modernist architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function (→functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament.
It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the
principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture.
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Cambridge ( KAYM-brij) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.
Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), two of the world's most prestigious universities, are in Cambridge, as was Radcliffe College, one of the leading colleges for women in the United States until it merged with Harvard on October 1, 1999.
According to the 2010 Census, the city's population was 105,162. As of July 2014, it was the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Lowell. Cambridge was one of two seats of Middlesex County until the county government was abolished in Massachusetts in 1997. Lowell was the other.
Kendall Square in Cambridge has been called the most innovative square mile on the planet, in reference to the high concentration of entrepreneurial start-ups and quality of innovation that have emerged there since 2010.
Architecture of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over four centuries of independence and former Spanish and British rule.
Architecture in the United States is as diverse as its multicultural society and has been shaped by many internal and external factors and regional distinctions. As a whole it represents a rich eclectic and innovative tradition.
Villa | Wikipedia audio article
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Villa
00:00:39 1 Roman
00:02:35 1.1 In Roman Britannia
00:04:26 1.2 Monastery villas of Late Antiquity
00:06:27 2 Post-Roman era
00:07:37 3 Italian Renaissance
00:07:46 3.1 Tuscany
00:08:45 3.1.1 Tuscan villa gardens
00:09:15 3.2 Rome
00:11:11 3.3 Venice
00:11:58 4 Villas abroad
00:12:07 4.1 17th century
00:12:45 4.2 18th and 19th centuries
00:15:47 4.3 20th - 21st centuries
00:15:56 4.3.1 Europe
00:16:44 4.3.2 Americas
00:18:28 4.3.3 Modern villas
00:19:51 4.3.4 Other
00:22:03 5 See also
00:22:14 6 Notes
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A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. Then they gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In modern parlance, villa can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to residences in the wildland–urban interface.
German Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:44 1 History
00:03:29 1.1 Colonial era
00:04:49 1.1.1 Palatines
00:06:49 1.1.2 Louisiana
00:08:47 1.1.3 Southeast
00:10:49 1.1.4 New England
00:11:23 1.1.5 Pennsylvania
00:13:54 1.2 American Revolution
00:14:53 1.3 19th century
00:16:09 1.3.1 Jews
00:17:09 1.3.2 Northeastern cities
00:17:25 1.3.3 Cities of the Midwest
00:19:08 1.3.4 Deep South
00:19:22 1.3.5 Texas
00:21:29 1.3.6 Germans from Russia
00:24:18 1.3.7 Civil War
00:25:53 1.3.8 Farmers
00:28:05 1.3.9 Politics
00:30:20 1.4 World Wars
00:30:28 1.4.1 Intellectuals
00:31:41 1.4.2 World War I anti-German sentiment
00:33:56 1.4.3 World War II
00:35:47 1.5 Contemporary period
00:37:35 2 Demographics
00:38:17 2.1 German-American communities
00:38:47 2.1.1 Communities with highest percentages of people of German ancestry
00:40:45 2.1.2 Large communities with high percentages of people of German ancestry
00:41:38 2.1.3 Communities with the most residents born in Germany
00:45:22 3 Counties by percentages of Germans
00:54:17 4 Culture
00:55:39 4.1 Music
00:58:24 4.2 Turners
00:59:31 4.3 Media
01:02:03 4.4 Athletics
01:02:55 4.5 Religion
01:06:27 4.6 Language
01:09:01 5 Assimilation
01:09:10 5.1 Introduction
01:09:29 5.2 The apparent disappearance of German American identity
01:22:22 5.3 Factors making German Americans susceptible to assimilation
01:31:32 5.4 Persistence of unassimilated German Americans
01:34:12 6 German-American influence
01:38:24 7 Education
01:38:55 8 Notable people
01:42:46 8.1 German-American presidents
01:43:32 9 See also
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German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 44 million in 2016, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. German-Americans account for about one third of the total ethnic German population in the world.None of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s, the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia. Immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States. By 2010, their population grew to 49.8 million German Americans, reflecting a jump of 6 million people since 2000.
There is a German belt that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. Pennsylvania has the largest population of German-Americans in the U.S. and is home to one of the group's original settlements, Germantown (Philadelphia), founded in 1683 and the birthplace of the American antislavery movement in 1688, as well as the revolutionary Battle of Germantown. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry.
They were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Germany by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start fresh in the New World. The arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where Germania—German-speaking districts—soon emerged.German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America.The great majority of people with some German ancestry have become Am ...
Architecture of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over four centuries of independence and former Spanish and British rule.
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Greensboro, NC | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:50 1 History
00:02:59 1.1 Early history
00:08:09 1.2 Civil War and last days of the Confederacy
00:11:19 1.3 Industrialization and growth
00:15:16 1.4 Civil rights movement
00:20:18 1.5 Dudley High School/A&T protests
00:22:16 1.6 Greensboro Massacre
00:23:59 2 Geography
00:25:12 2.1 Downtown area
00:26:15 2.2 Four Seasons/Coliseum area
00:28:31 2.3 Airport area
00:29:53 2.4 Climate
00:32:49 3 Demographics
00:36:50 3.1 Religion
00:38:07 4 Economy
00:39:34 4.1 Largest employers
00:39:51 4.2 Top industries
00:40:06 5 Arts
00:47:24 5.1 Attractions
00:56:02 5.2 Shopping
00:57:49 6 Sports
01:02:21 7 Government
01:02:57 7.1 City Council
01:03:36 7.2 Participatory budgeting
01:04:18 8 Education
01:04:27 8.1 Higher education
01:05:34 8.2 Secondary education
01:05:44 8.3 Public education
01:06:24 8.4 Private education
01:07:16 9 Media
01:07:25 9.1 Newspapers
01:08:21 9.2 Broadcast television
01:09:56 9.3 Radio
01:10:05 9.3.1 FM stations
01:11:09 9.3.2 AM stations
01:11:42 9.4 Documentaries
01:12:53 9.5 Local media censorship
01:13:51 10 Transportation
01:15:49 10.1 Interstate highways
01:17:20 11 Notable inhabitants
01:17:30 11.1 Animals
01:18:28 12 Sister cities
01:19:01 13 See also
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Greensboro ( (listen); formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the 3rd-most populous city in North Carolina, the 68th-most populous city in the United States, and the county seat and largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 269,666, and in 2015 the estimated population was 285,342. Three major interstate highways (Interstate 40, Interstate 85, and Interstate 73) in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city.
In 1808, Greensborough (the spelling before 1895) was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. The county courts were thus placed closer to the geographical center of the county, a location more easily reached at the time by the majority of the county's citizens, who depended on horse and foot for travel.
In 2003, the previous Greensboro – Winston-Salem – High Point metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was re-defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. This region was separated into the Greensboro–High Point MSA and the Winston-Salem MSA. The 2010 population for the Greensboro–High Point MSA was 723,801. The combined statistical area (CSA) of Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, popularly referred to as the Piedmont Triad, had a population of 1,599,477.
Among Greensboro's many notable attractions, some of the most popular include the Wet 'n Wild Emerald Pointe water park, the Greensboro Science Center, the International Civil Rights Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Greensboro Symphony, the Greensboro Ballet, Triad Stage, the Wyndham Golf Championship, the headquarters of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Greensboro Coliseum Complex which hosts various sporting events, concerts, and other events, the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the South Atlantic Baseball League, the Carolina Dynamo of the Premier Development Soccer League, the Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League, the Greensboro Roller Derby, and the National Folk Festival.
University Challenge S45E36 Liverpool vs St John's - Oxford
In the penultimate match of this series, we have the team from St John's - Oxford playing against the team from Liverpool university. Despite of not being the most exciting match, the questions are somewhat better this time than in the last match. Anyway, one more week and I'll have to bid adieu (until July, at least). Original air date 11.4.2016
Christopher Monkhouse, Eero Saarinen Beyond the Measly ABC
Eloise W. Martin Curator and Chairman, Department of European Decorative Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, and essay contributor to the catalogue Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, on the design of the Miller House.