After setting aside his career as an architect to serve on the front lines during World War I, Walter Gropius sensed that the world needed a radical change—a change in which art and architecture would play a fundamental role.
His previous ideas about what architecture should be no longer seemed to make sense. His new vision for architecture became one in which all arts would join forces to reimagine the material world, where crafts would regain their role at the forefront of the production process, and where artists would succeed in imprinting their style and essence onto useful, beautiful objects that could be mass-produced according to the ideals of Fordism and Taylorism.
