Exhibit of Gropius Designs Opens As Lamont Plan Shows His Ideas

After more than a decade of non-recognition by the Corporation, the teachings of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, in one corner of the Yard have entered through the back door into another corner.

Recognition in one form is being shown by his students in a one-man exhibition of his designs executed in Germany ad the U. S. Following a formal opening at Robinson Hall last Friday for the School of Design, the show opens for the public today.

Indirectly, what Gropius has been teaching here since 1935 received recognition when the relatively radical design of the Lamont Library was approved and accepted into the company of Yard buildings boasting of longer pedigrees.

Among the most recent of his projects illustrated in the exhibit is the General Panel system of prefabrication now under full scale operation in California. The system differs fundamentally from other factory-construction methods: first, in that any architect can use the panels to produce an infinite variety of designs; and second, the panels are strong enough for two-story houses.

Besides a model of Gropius own house in Lincoln, often the center of argument between moderns and traditionalists, the exhibits including a novel theater design.