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Neues Bauhaus in DessauPhoto (detail): commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lelikro

100 years of the Bauhaus
 Bauhaus

Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 – and in doing so revolutionised architecture, design and the way we think about it. What influence does this art school have today? And what should everyone know about the Bauhaus? We answer the most important questions about next year’s anniversary.
 

Bauhaus and its History

Group photo of Bauhaus masters in Dessau (1926): f. l. t. r: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl und Oskar Schlemmer. Photo (detail): © picture alliance akg images

Celebrating 100 years of Bauhaus
Eight things you should know about the Bauhaus

Minimalist design, simplicity and efficiency – how the Bauhaus aimed to change the way we live.

Form follows function: Some of the Bauhaus’ maxims have found their way into everyday speech as well. Photo: © Tobias Schrank

Celebrating 100 years of Bauhaus
In a nutshell: six sentences that encapsulate the Bauhaus

We run into the Bauhaus more often than we know – and not just while out shopping for furniture. Some of the design school’s maxims have found their way into everyday speech as well.

The precursor to all satellite towns: Gropiusstadt Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Bildagentur-online/Schöning

Bauhaus
 From a model of urban development to a ghettoized estate and back again

Berlin’s Gropiusstadt is generally seen as the prototypical satellite city. But Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius imagined a very different path for his brainchild.

Visitor to the Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photo (detail): © picture-alliance/dpa/Sara Lemel

Bauhaus centenary hype
 “The Bauhaus should be understood, not just indiscriminately celebrated.”

Arne Winkelmann, an architecture expert based in Frankfurt am Main, would like to see more a more critical approach to the Bauhaus school: an interview. 

Woman sitting in Marcel Breuer tubular steel chair, 1926. Photo (detail): © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/Dr. Stephan Consemüller

The Bauhaus
 Designing life

The Bauhaus art school aimed to promote social and as such affordable living through the artistic avant-garde.  At the core of the movement was the idea that revolutionary design could bring about a new way of life for a society in the midst of an upheaval.

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