Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969) was born in Berlin and studied architecture in both Munich and Berlin.  In 1908, he joined the office of Peter Behrens - his fellow employees in Behren's office were Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Meyer, and Le Corbusier.  In 1910, Gropius and Meyer established an architectural practice in Berlin.  The following year they designed the façade and glass curtain walls for the Faguswerk shoe factory - this building's modernist aesthetic prefigures many of the Bauhaus designs in the next decade,  n 1919, Gropius founded the State Bauhaus in Weimar as a place for experimenting with integrated designs, so creating the foundations of modern architecture and design in the 20th century. During WWII, Gropius emigrated to the United States and settled in metropolitan Boston.  Along with Marcel Breuer, he taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.  The home he created in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is regarded as a seminal example of modernist architecture.