If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

In 1959 he received the AIA Gold Medal. TAC went bankrupt in 1995. (Alma had by that time establiWalter Gropiusd a relationship with Franz Werfel whom Walter Gropius later married).

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18 1883 – July 5 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.