![]() ![]() Though the burgeoning intellectual and artistic landscape of post-WWI Germany and Austria soon gave way to much more oppressive politics, we can still feel the ethos of the Bauhaus in modern design in a widespread emphasis on functionality, accessibility, and education. ![]() ![]() Much of contemporary architecture - and indeed, the entire concept of “liberal arts education” - owe a debt to this influential school and its radical take on aesthetics, function, and education, as well as other experiments in social progress that briefly flourished in Germany between the two World Wars. Students of the Bauhaus School simultaneously learned art, architecture, and technical craft, at the campus which was based in Weimar for six years, then relocated to Dessau through 1932, and finally made one last move to Berlin in 1933, before closing under mounting pressure due to the rise of Fascism in Germany. The school offered a curriculum that was radical for its time, combining two Weimar-based schools - the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts - under a single roof. Today, Bauhaus philosophy and aesthetics have practitioners across the world, all of which can be pinpointed to a very specific origin: an experimental higher education institution called the Staatliches Bauhaus (“house of building”), which was founded in Germany in 1919. ![]()
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