No art movement in history has impacted the world of products quite like the Bauhaus. Founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, the school’s original manifesto proposed a ...
You might think of Bauhaus as a style, or maybe a school of thought. But Staatliches Bauhaus—more commonly known as just Bauhaus—was actually a physical school: an institute of design that gave some ...
“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 ...
Germany is known for manufacturing and its skill in engineering. But it also is a powerhouse in design, from furniture and architecture to art, as evidenced by the Bauhaus, a world-renown art and ...
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 ...
In 1919, a handful of architects, designers and craftsmen started the Bauhaus design school in Germany to change the world. They wanted to modernize architecture and product design by stripping away ...
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 ...
The Bauhaus is nearly a century old, but it still has a lot to teach today’s designers. Of all the influences from the past 100 years, the Bauhaus–the venerable art and design school founded in ...
Reporting from Berlin — When I was a kid, anything 100 years old was an antique and looked as though it belonged in a museum or Great-Grandma’s house. So I was surprised when I realized that 2019 was ...
"Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from ...