The Bauhaus

100 Years Later

Germany is celebrating 100 years since the beginnings of the Bauhaus in 1919.

Walter Gropius inaugurated the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 1919 with the following words:

The Bauhaus continues to have a profound influence on art, design, furniture, and architecture.

The design revolution that we have witnessed over the past decades has been brought about by companies such as Apple and IDEO in large part due to the influence of the innovations of the Bauhaus school in combining craft, art and mass production as the genesis of modern industrial design.

Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive has revealed his feelings about the tech giant’s new home, as his team prepares to move in, and photos of the building’s interior emerge.

This great leap forward, however, has just as much a foot in the past as the future — specifically, in an influential German design movement that grew out of the chaos of WWI, aiming to reinvent a more ordered and just society through great design. The Bauhaus school shifted between Weimar (1919 -1925), Dessau (1925–1932) and Berlin (1932 -1933) during Germany’s most pivotal years, and acted as an innovation incubator, not unlike Apple’s Design Lab. In both instances, a team of dedicated practitioners thought they could alleviate the alienation of modern society through more personal consumer products, clean lines, and user-friendly interfaces. In other words, a revolution centered on aesthetics that benefitted the people.

Dessau is the city most closely associated with the Bauhaus. This is where the school of design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 was active for the longest period of time, and where it experienced its heyday from 1925 to 1932. All three directors of the Bauhaus — Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer und Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — left their mark on the Bauhaus Dessau, and almost all of the Bauhaus buildings erected in Dessau are now regarded as icons of twentieth century architecture.

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