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 ...

When you think of the Bauhaus, you probably think of buildings, objects and famous designers. What you don’t think of is a logo or corporate identity. And for good reason. Today, the Bauhaus is an ...

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“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 ...

Atop a contemporary carpet of multicoloured squares and triangles sat chic and angular yellow-upholstered armchairs and a sleek Scandinavian-style desk. The only thing that seemed shockingly out of ...

Bauhaus, the design school that left its mark on everything from teapots to tower blocks and iPhones to Ikea, marks its centenary this year, touching off a politically charged debate about its lasting ...

One hundred years ago, this year, an art and design school opened in Germany. It would remain in operation for just 14 years, under three different directors, two of whom would disagree fundamentally ...

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 ...

They were the children of their time. But what did the Bauhaus artists surrounding founder Walter Gropius want? And what has remained of their ideas? As the official Bauhaus anniversary kicks off, ...