The Bauhaus- founded in Weimar in 1919, located in Dessau beginning in 1925, and ultimately shut down in 1933 shortly after relocating in Berlin- continues to be the most effective and successful export article of the twentieth- century German culture. On the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, this profusely illustrated, comprehensive publication examines the art school’s history and influence.

One of Walter Gropius’ guiding principles in founding the Bauhaus was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.” As a result of this ethos