The Bauhaus, a wildly influential design movement in 20th-century Europe, has new relevance in the 21st century: as a model for fighting climate change. The European Union has an ambitious new goal of ...

What comes to mind when you think of the Bauhaus movement in design? Sleek, modern spaces? Clean lines and geometric forms? Industrial influences? Simplicity without excess? Bauhaus design emerged in ...

Moholy was born in Prague in 1894 and came to the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 1923, having already worked as a theater ...

László Toth, a Hungarian Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor, emigrates to the United States after World War II in search of a new life. After a rough start, a wealthy businessman recognizes his ...

An example of Bauhaus type and poster design (all images courtesy of Adobe and Bauhaus Dessau) Plenty of work was left unfinished when Bauhaus Dessau was closed abruptly in 1932 by the National ...

Anonymous was a woman—or so the saying goes. But in the case of an anonymously authored article on the Bauhaus titled “Girls Want to Learn Something,” it’s likely a fact. Written in 1929, the ...

“So let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen, free of the divisive class pretensions that endeavored to raise a prideful barrier between craftsmen and artists!” -The Bauhaus Manifesto by ...

These and other products came out of the short-lived but prolific German design school founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius; it was later led by architects Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der ...

Despite all the Victorian-era townhouses and quaint colonial streets, Boston owes more than you might think to the Bauhaus. And no, it’s not just the iconic white cube of the Gropius House in Lincoln ...

In 1919, there was a lot of talk in Germany about building a better world. The First World War had ended in crushing defeat and political chaos, and so much was literally in ruins. The need for new ...

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