Bauhaus Building Dessau

Bauhaus Building Dessau

The Bauhaus celebrates 100 years. Founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919, the school and its unprecedented program of bringing together fine arts, craftsmanship and architecture as a “total work of art” would begin a modernist movement like no other. While the Bauhaus had its start Weimar, Germany; we begin our account of the celebration of the centennial here, at the Bauhaus Building in Dessau.

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Gropius House

Gropius House

“We chose a small hill surrounded by an apple orchard…also in walking distance from Lake Walden, famous throughout the world through the writings of Henry Thoreau…”

-Ise Gropius

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