Walter Gropius Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Walter Gropius? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Walter Gropius from Architects & Designers and what is the personality traits.
INTJ (5w6)
Walter Gropius personality type is INTP, the rarest type among the 16 types (I’ve written about it here, here, and here).
As an INTP, Gropius was a brilliant innovator with a deeply felt social conscience. He believed in the education of the whole person. He believed in providing people with the tools they needed to be innovators in their own right.
In both of these ways, he is an interesting model for all of us.
In his work at the Bauhaus, he was a pioneer in modern architecture. In his commitment to social development in Germany in the 1920s, he provided a model for visionary social planning and community development. He was a pioneer in bringing valuable design and architecture to communities around the world. His lifelong commitment to social justice led him into a life of service, creating a foundation that continues to help bridge the gap between the rich and the poor.
In his last years, he gave his time to working with impoverished people in India and Africa—to bringing about change through art and design.
In this current era of decline in our society, it is time to renew our commitment to social justice.
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style.
Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber (1855–1933), daughter of the Prussian politician Georg Schwarnweber (1816-1894). Walter's uncle Martin Gropius (1824-1880) was the architect of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin and a follower of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, with whom Walter's great-grandfather Carl Gropius, who fought under Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo, had shared a flat as a bachelor.
