Bauhaus

Bauhaus, famous German school of design that had inestimable influence on modern architecture, the industrial and graphic arts, and theater design.

Bauhaus
Picture Dictionary of Modern Architecture: Bauhaus
Architect Walter Gropius used Bauhaus ideas when he built his monochrome home in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Bauhaus the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for its approach to design that it publicized and taught.

Bauhaus : The style of the Bauhaus School, founded in Germany by Walter Gropius in 1919, emphasizing simplicity, functionalism, and craftsmanship. Bauhaus is a German expression meaning house for building.

Bauhaus in the US
Bauhaus principles flourished in America particularly as a result of a highly successful exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City entitled International Style: Architecture in 1932 and a book entitled The ...

Bauhaus A very influential German school of design and architecture, the aesthetic of which was influenced by and derived from techniques and materials employed especially in industrial fabrication and manufacture: steel, concrete, chrome, ...

Bauhaus - The architecture, design, craft, and fine art school established by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, transferred to Dessau in 1925, and finally moved to BERLIN IN 1932. It closed in 1933 under increasing political interference.

Bauhaus - A style of architecture that reflected the push towards functionalism and industrial design. A German design school (1919-33) promoted this style of modernist architecture and design. It was closed by the Nazis in 1933.

3 The Bauhaus
When the Bauhaus opened, the modern movement in architecture began to coalesce.

Bauhaus
- (house of building) a school of arts and crafts founded at Weimar in Germany in 1906 by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Under Van de Velde, school was very progressive.

Bauhaus - a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918 ...

Influences on Art Deco came from a wide variety of historical and avant-garde sources, including Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus movement and Cubism.

Bauhaus - German design school founded in Weimar in 1906 and named by Walter Gropius in 1919. Its philosophy was austere functionalism - no ornamentation - and the use of industrial materials and inter disciplinary methods and techniques.

With its reflectivity, different colours and transparency, sheet glass as the skin on a steel skeleton became very popular with designers, particularly Walter Gropius who started the Bauhaus, ...

The style was started in Western Europe during the 1920s by Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies von der Rohe, both architects of the Bauhaus School.

A design style dating from the 1920s characterised by clean lines and a search for proportion in which form follows function; decoration is minimal. It originated in the Bauhaus School of Art in Germany; ...

A clean streamlined furniture style of 20th century with roots in the German Bauhaus School of design and Scandinavian design. Sometimes referred to as international style.
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See also: Architecture, House, Arches, National, International