BERLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of events across Germany this year will celebrate the 100th birthday of the Bauhaus movement, whose "form follows function" aesthetic spread around the world, shaping ...

Bauhaus architecture is a style of design steeped in the concept of functionality. It was created as a direct response to industrialization and mass production. The Bauhaus school was founded in ...

As the United States faces a crisis today of inadequate affordable and low-income housing, it is a timely moment to look back at the work of Catherine Bauer, a leading 20th-century reformer and ...

The Bauhaus is the Keith Richards of design schools: influential, legendary, and stubbornly refusing to die. The fanfare occasioned by its 100th anniversary is largely deserved—it’s still the gold ...

The Bauhaus Museum Weimar, designed by architect Heike Hanada, holds a vast collection of works dating from the school’s first period (ca. 1919–23). Courtesy Thomas Müller/Klassik Stiftung Weimar in ...

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 ...

Ethik und Ästhetik sind Eins. “Ethics and aesthetics are one,” or so the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein asserted in his 1921 treatise Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He was by no means the ...

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 ...

After fleeing the Nazis, Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius arrived at Harvard in 1937 and was soon followed by Marcel Breuer and other German refugees, transforming Boston into a hotbed of ...

Jan Bartoszek admits that over the life of her 40-year-old Chicago dance company Hedwig Dances, the name has triggered various associations. Starting in the 1990s, there was the musical Hedwig and the ...