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fromFast Company
5 days ago
Renovation

How do you design a bathroom for the godfather of the Bauhaus? Keep it simple

Designers created a new public restroom for the Gropius House using Bauhaus principles and material-focused research to solve long-standing visitor infrastructure needs.
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago
Design

The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists Who Helped Shape Modernism

The Bauhaus advanced many women’s artistic and design careers despite institutional gender limitations, including enrollment caps and restricted opportunities under Walter Gropius.
Renovation
fromFast Company
5 days ago

How do you design a bathroom for the godfather of the Bauhaus? Keep it simple

Designers created a new public restroom for the Gropius House using Bauhaus principles and material-focused research to solve long-standing visitor infrastructure needs.
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fromArchitectural Digest
2 months ago

This Walter Gropius Wonder Narrowly Escaped Demolition-and Gained a Stained Glass Masterpiece

Gropius, who from 1919 to 1928 directed the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, designed the house in 1921-22 for lawyer Fritz Otte. The property is considered a dramatic evolution of Gropius's earlier seminal Haus Sommerfeld, which was also located in Berlin, but destroyed in World War II. The Bauhaus founder embraced a forward-looking approach with an unadorned, sharp-edged structure that rejected the heaviness of 19th-century historicism.
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