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 ...
When you think of the Bauhaus, you probably think of buildings, objects and famous designers. What you don’t think of is a logo or corporate identity. And for good reason. Today, the Bauhaus is an ...
Bauhaus, the design school that left its mark on everything from teapots to tower blocks and iPhones to Ikea, marks its centenary this year, touching off a politically charged debate about its lasting ...
The ideals of the Bauhaus School shaped more than just design and architecture around the world; they also transformed teaching. And while a university in Weimar, the birthplace of the Bauhaus, still ...
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 ...
Tubular-steel chairs are a regular accessory of modern life, so common that their design doesn't seem odd at all. Ditto built-in kitchens and forbidding high-rises. Bauhaus design already permeates ...
A miniature of a Marcel Breuer chair is part of the exhibit "The Bauhaus at 100" at Lewis & Clark College. (Courtesy of Lewis & Clark College) The sleek black-and-silver-colored Marcel Breuer chair ...
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 ...
A new Bauhaus Museum in Germany stands on the ideological fault lines of the country’s tumultuous 20th century. One hundred years after Walter Gropius founded the world’s most famous art and design ...
Herbert Bayer applied iconic Bauhaus principles to Eero Saarinen’s performance tent when he rebuilt it in 1964. The celebrated architect and designer changed the round raked bowl into a hexangular ...