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100 years of the Bauhaus
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Neues Bauhaus in Dessau Photo (detail): commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lelikro

Bauhaus and its History

New instruction based on old guidelines: At the Bauhaus University Weimar, the curriculum is still adheres to Bauhaus teaching principles. Photo (detail): © picture alliance / dpa / Jens Wolf

Bauhaus at Universities
 A global legacy

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 follows the founders’ guiding principles, other institutions based on the same spirit have had to close.

The “Bauhaus women”
 Female apprentices required – but not too many!

There are many myths on the subject of women in the Bauhaus. Author Theresia Enzensberger points out that where women’s equality is concerned, the school might have been progressive – but the inclusive attitude remained incomplete.
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.
Book cover: Bauhaus © DuMont, bebra Verlag, E.A. Seemann Henschel

100 years of Bauhaus
 Bauhaus – still a good idea

100 years of Bauhaus – an excellent reason to celebrate! And a welcome occasion for publishers to present us with new books about the revolutionary arts school. Three titles approach the Bauhaus phenomenon in their own special ways.
 
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.
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. 

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bauhaus imaginista

The Bauhaus wanted to redefine the relationship between education, art and society. The Bauhaus shared this approach, which can be found in Gropius' Manifesto of 1919, with other movements in the 20th century, such as Japan and Russia. These international contexts are the focus of the bauhaus imaginista exhibition and event program.

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