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In architecture technology and the machine inspired a new generation of practitioners. In 1937 Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school of architecture in Germany, immigrated to the United States, where he introduced functionalist architecture to his Harvard University students. Committed to revitalizing design, he encouraged his students to collaborate, to learn by doing, and to embrace the social possibilities of technology. His teaching techniques and his philosophy of design helped to translate modern technology into dwellings that supported human communities.
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