Gropius

According to the artwork on the Google homepage today, this is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Walter Gropius. Gropius was an architect, who, as far as I can tell, designed very box-like, but functional buildings. And he became famous for this. He was born in Germany, moved to England before WW II and later came to the United States. It is said that he could not draw, and used others to put his ideas on paper. The main reason that I wrote this post was that I discovered that the last major project that he designed is Tower East, located on Chagrin Blvd, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. That is about 30 minutes from our house. The picture shows the building, which was constructed between 1967-69.