Thus Bauhaus was born in the cultural German hub of Weimar, home and popular haunt of classical heroes such as Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Nietzsche and Liszt. I poked around the original Bauhaus ...

An early Bauhaus design, the MT8 lamp was crafted after the central tenets of the school, using simple shapes and, with the inner components mostly exposed, eschewing ornamentation. Though unpopular ...

Staatliches Bauhaus, "both a school for the arts and a school of thought," was founded by architect Walter Gropius in April 1919 in Weimar, Germany, according to the Google blog. The school itself ...

Here are a few. [Photo: Adam Berry/Bloomberg/Getty Images] Architect ahead of his time Gropius’s most famous architectural design is his Bauhaus building in the school’s second home, Dessau.

Bauhaus—from 1919 to 1933—brought together arts, crafts, and industry with a focus on aesthetics and objects. Though it lasted only a few years, it forever changed design.

The Bauhaus, a design school founded a century ago this month in Germany, lasted just 14 years before the Nazis shut it down. And yet in that time it proved a magnet for much that was new and ...