100 years of the Bauhaus Bauhaus Photo (detail): commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lelikro Bauhaus and its History 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Top
