Gropius & Fry 1934 - 1936

Gropius & Fry was an architectural partnership formed in London, England in 1934 by Walter Gropius (1883-1969) and Edwin Maxwell Fry (1899-1986).

The partnership was dissolved in 1936 and the following year Gropius left Britain to take up an appointment as professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fry subsequently worked alone

Worked in
UK
Works

Architectural projects by the partnership included apartments in St. Leonard's Hill, Windsor (1935);  Impington Village School in Cambridgeshire (1936);  London Film Production Workshops in Denham, Buckinghamshire (1936); a school in Histon, Cambrideshire (1936); and Levy House in Chelsea, London (1936).

Bibliography

Booth, Philip and Taylor, Nicholas. Cambridge New Architecture. Foreword by Nilolaus Pevsner. London: Leonard Hill, 3rd edition,1970

Cormer, Leslie Humm. Walter Gropius: Emigre Architect: Works and Refuge England and America in the 30s. Ph.D., Brown University, 1986

Elliott, David. Gropius in England: a Documentation of the Years 1934-37. London: Building Centre Trust, 1974

MacCarthy, Fiona. Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus. London: Faber & Faber, 2019

Powers, Alan. ‘Conservative Attitudes: Walter Gropius in Cambridge and Maxwell Fry in Oxford’ Twentieth Century Architecture no.11, 2013 pp.pp.68-81

Thirties: British Art and Design before the War. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979  [Catalogue of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 October-13 January 1979]]

Whittick, Arnold. ‘Walter Adolf Gropius’ in Contemporary Architects, edited by Ann Lee Morgan and Colin Naylor. Chicago and London: St. James Press, 2nd edition, 1987 pp. 358-358

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