Bauhaus Everywhere

Traces of a design school in everyday life

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Bauhaus. Is. Everywhere.

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What do flat-pack furniture and teapots have in common?

Bauhaus is Architecture

I'm boxy and I know it

Bauhaus is Costume design

Tin foil, but make it fashion

Bauhaus is Furniture design

Let your chair down

Bauhaus is Textile design

You better be-weave it

"Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting"Walter Gropius

Best in class

A glimpse of student life at Bauhaus Dessau

Study guide

What Was It Like To Study In the Coolest School Around?

How to apply, the teachers, and the legendary parties

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How to Dress Like a Bauhaus Student

From the classroom to the catwalk

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How to Decorate Your House, Bauhaus-Style

What would you find in a Bauhaus student pad?

Unfinished business

The Bauhaus buildings that were never built

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The Rundhaus in Augmented Reality

Step inside the unbuilt building in AR

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Bambos in Augmented Reality

Step inside the unbuilt building in AR

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Courthouse in Augmented Reality

Step inside the unbuilt building in AR

EXPLORE IN 3D

The Rundhaus in 3D

Discover Carl Fieger's imagined solution to Germany's 1920s housing shortage

EXPLORE IN 3D

Bambos in 3D

Step inside the BAMBOS house, designed by Bauhaus master, Marcel Breuer

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Courthouse in 3D

Take a look around Eduard Ludwig's design for a living space, inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's ideal of architecture-as-art

Who lives in a haus like this?

Explore the Bauhaus architecture in Dessau

Architecture

Building the Future

Take a tour of the famous Bauhaus building

Architecture

Throwing Out the Architecture Rulebook

Revolutionary prototypes for a new age of living

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Bauhaus goes global

Discover the Bauhaus architecture beyond Germany

Go on a Virtual Tour of 10 Bauhaus-Inspired Buildings Around the World

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Brazil

Gropius or Niemeyer?

Discover the parallels between the founder of Bauhaus and Brazil's most famous architect

Nigeria

The Finest Campus in Africa

How Arieh Sharon designed the Obafemi Awolowo University to keep the students cool

USA

From Furniture to Architecture

The designer of tubular steel furniture reinvents himself

Netherlands

Bauhaus in Oranje

Dutch avantgarde, presented by Bauhaus

India

How Did Bauhaus Land in India?

What happened when a liberal arts school in Calcutta joined forces with the German design school

"Designing is not a profession but an attitude.“László Moholy-Nagy

The brains behind Bauhaus

Meet the teachers and visionaries of the design school

Walter Gropius

Founder of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Carl Fieger

A silent visionary

Gunta Stölzl

The woman who wove her way to the top

Hannes Meyer

The controversial director

Josef Albers

See his little-known glass work

László Moholy-Nagy

Drawing inspiration from the world

Oscar Schlemmer

An avant-garden multimedia artist

Paul Klee

Bookbinding, stained glass, and mural painting

"People's needs instead of luxury needs"Hannes Meyer

Bauhaus artworks, up close

Art up close

Zoom into "Yellow. Red. Blue" by Wassily Kandinsky

The sound of colors

Art up close

Zoom into "Divided Half Figure to the Right" by Oskar Schlemmer

The incredible boomerang journey that began at a Bauhaus party

Art up close

Zoom into "Song From the Last Bauhaus Festival 1933" by Carl Marx

The dance of women, clowns and devils

This woman's work

How female students and teachers fought for equality

Textiles

How Women Weaved Themselves Success

The successes and challenges of women students at Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Haus style

Bauhaus design: where form meets function

Typography

A Treasure Trove of Typefaces

The first graphic designers were trained at the school – and one of the things they practised on was developing new fonts

Wallpaper

The Bauhaus Bestseller

It wasn't a cantilever chair, it wasn't a table lamp, it wasn't even a teapot

Drawing

Radical Geometries

A look at Bauhaus works on paper, from Josef Alber's self-portrait to Paul Klee's lithographs

Color theory

Why is the Triangle Yellow and the Circle Blue?

A look at the theory behind colors and shapes

Photography

When Photography Developed at Bauhaus Dessau

A favorite area for experimenting

The shape of things to come

What happened after the school shut down?

Australia

The Last Bauhaus Dessau Student

How Harry Seidler studied with the Bauhaus masters after the school had closed

United Kingdom

London Calling

What happened when Bauhaus teachers invaded London's Isokon Building

USA

From the Bauhaus to the Black Mountain

How the ideas of the German pioneer designers lived on in the woods of North Carolina

Bauhaus Dessau today

What's on at the Prellerhaus

Experiencing the Bauhaus is so much better

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The new Bauhaus on the block

Discover more about Chicago's IIT Institute of Design

Going forward

Founding an American Bauhaus

The struggles and successes of IIT Institute of Design

Looking back

50 Years of Bauhaus

How the Institute of Design commemorated the Bauhaus in 1969

Around the World in Google Earth

Discover the Bauhaus architecture beyond Germany

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Explore Bauhaus

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Are you a teacher or parent?

A downloadable lesson plan that can be used by teachers in class or by students to work through at a their own pace

Learn Anywhere lesson plan

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