Walter Gropius (1883-1969) was a German-born architect who, despite being unable to draw, became a pioneer of his profession. For his first employment, he worked with Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Dietrich Marcks in the office of Peter Behrens. After only two years Gropius set up his own practice in Berlin with Adolf Meyer. Between 1919 and 1932 in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, Gropius founded the famous Bauhaus Schools, which educated designers and artists including Paul Klee, Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky. Through Maxwell Fry, Gropius emigrated to Britain in 1934, then in 1937 he moved to the United States to become professor of architecture at Harvard University. During his brief period in England he advanced the use of timber in modern houses, and with his own house in Massachusetts he is recognised as bringing International Modernism to the US.