The University of Baghdad (UOB) is a public research university in Baghdad, Iraq. It is the largest university in Iraq and the tenth largest in the Arab world.
Site plan developed for the expanded University of Baghdad campus
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American 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. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style.
Portrait by Louis Held, c. 1919
Gropius's Monument to the March Dead (1921) was dedicated to the memory of nine workers who died in Weimar resisting the Kapp Putsch.
Gropius with Harry Seidler in Sydney, Australia, in 1954
Modern reconstruction of Gropius's house in Dessau. It was destroyed during World War II. This reconstruction was not built as an exact replica of the original house