Google's doodle team is celebrating the 100th anniversary of German art and thought movement Bauhaus with a colorful homepage tribute reflecting its iconic contributions to modern architecture and ...
The sleek smartphone you may be holding in your hand. The elegant tubular metal chair you’d love to buy but can’t afford. The glass-sheathed building you admire or despise. All these things reflect ...
In 1919, architect Walter Gropius opened a small school in Weimar, Germany that soon became a breeding ground for a new aesthetic movement. Whether you’re aware of it or not, the Bauhaus—the first ...
The Bauhaus, a pioneering German art school, redefined the pedagogy of art and craft, fostered relations between art and industry, and systematically explored the impact of design and architecture on ...
One hundred years ago, German architect Walter Gropius sought to unite formal art styles with craftsmanship, elevating the latter to a level of prestige previously withheld from artisans and designers ...
The American Eagle Saga Only Shows the Woke Left Is Out of Touch A Poet for Our Disjointed Times The interwar German art movement remains influential. We all know the look: that sleek, simple, even ...
Widely acknowledged as the 20th century’s most influential school of architecture, art, and design, the Staatliches Bauhaus was founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919 and closed down in 1933, as ...
As a school, the Bauhaus lasted just 14 years from beginning to end. It opened in 1919 when Walter Gropius was finally able to accept an invitation to merge the art schools of Weimar and to be the ...
The Bauhaus Museum Weimar, designed by architect Heike Hanada, holds a vast collection of works dating from the school’s first period (ca. 1919–23). Courtesy Thomas Müller/Klassik Stiftung Weimar in ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1919, there was a lot of talk in Germany about building a better world. World War I had ended in crushing defeat and political chaos, and so much was literally in ruins. The need ...
In 1925, the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau and into a reinforced-concrete complex formed of three buildings, connected by a bridge and a one-story wing. In my first year of architecture school ...