Note 465 — CHAPTER 22 THE EARLY WORK OF THE SECOND GENERATION: WALTER GROPIUS, LE CORBUSIER, MIES VAN DER ROHE, AND THE DUTCH

The effect of van Doesburg’s visit to Germany remains controversial. Although Gropius denies, or at any rate minimizes, its importance to the Bauhaus group—and, indeed, personally disliked van Doesburg—critics and historians mostly believe the influence of Neoplasticism to have been at least as significant at this point as that of the Russian Constructivists. See Zevi, B., ‘L’Insegnamento critico di Theo van Doesburg’, Metron, VII (1951), 21-37.

466It is not without significance that Gropius included in 1926 Oud’s Holländische Architektur in the series of Bauhausbücher which he edited. That certainly proves a special respect for the De Stijl-nurtured modern architecture of Holland at the time.