What comes to mind when you think of the Bauhaus movement in design? Sleek, modern spaces? Clean lines and geometric forms? Industrial influences? Simplicity without excess? Bauhaus design emerged in ...

The European Union has an ambitious new goal of becoming an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her State of ...

An example of Bauhaus type and poster design (all images courtesy of Adobe and Bauhaus Dessau) Plenty of work was left unfinished when Bauhaus Dessau was closed abruptly in 1932 by the National ...

László Toth, a Hungarian Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor, emigrates to the United States after World War II in search of a new life. After a rough start, a wealthy businessman recognizes his ...

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 ...

Anonymous was a woman—or so the saying goes. But in the case of an anonymously authored article on the Bauhaus titled “Girls Want to Learn Something,” it’s likely a fact. Written in 1929, the ...

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 ...

The sleek smartphone you may be holding in your hand. The elegant tubular metal chair you’d love to buy but can’t afford. The glass-sheathed building you admire or despise. All these things reflect ...

“So let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen, free of the divisive class pretensions that endeavored to raise a prideful barrier between craftsmen and artists!” -The Bauhaus Manifesto by ...

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