German architect Walter Gropius established the first Bauhaus school in 1919 on a mission ... founded in what is still the university’s main building drew on intellectual powers from across ...

The school first opened in Weimar in 1919 ... During the onslaught, the main Bauhaus building was somehow spared, if damaged. During the German Democratic Republic, it again became an industrial ...

Take the Bauhaus building itself. Designed by Walter Gropius in Dessau (where the school had moved to from Weimar) in 1925-26, it was intended to look industrial; a factory of ideas and images as well ...

“To start with, the sheer spectacle, the great expanse of glass in the workshop wing connected to the main teaching ... The Bauhaus building, as an avatar of the school, and as a piece of ...

(Bauhaus literally means “building house” in German, or “School of Building,” although ... The ornamentation of the building was once the main purpose of the visual arts, and they were ...

Inside was the Bauhaus manifesto. “The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building ... the school drew on government support. Construction of the main buildings had far exceeded ...

Here are a few. Gropius’s most famous architectural design is his Bauhaus building in the school’s second home, Dessau. Daybelge says the design, with its glass-lined walls and iconic signage ...

Bauhaus, short for Staatliches Bauhaus or State Building School, refers both to the school ... what colours the walls were. Now the main entrance doors are painted radiant red, the ceiling of ...

You'll recognize a lot of the names associated with it, whose work still appears in living rooms published in Livingetc today ...

In Dessau, the Bauhaus teachers built a school building that followed their modern aesthetic principles. Despite repeated attempts by Gropius to depoliticise the Bauhaus by pointing to its ...

Bauhaushotel "Haus des Volkes" Built by Belgian architect Henry van de Velde, this building was the site of the original Bauhaus school in Weimar. Traces can be found today in wall paintings ...