“The continued fascination exerted by the Bauhaus is due, no doubt, to its illustrious faculty and their imaginative output, whether paintings or teapots, but there is also the attractive image of a creative community bound together by art and design.”
.:Witold Rybczynski, Slate Magazine, in a fantastic slideshow on the famous and pioneering Bauhaus School. Also, I’ll take any opportunity to post a photo of that modern iconic building, which author Nicholas Fox Weber believes is “radiating power and optimism and a love of beauty.”
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![Bauhaus Launches Award For Social Housing
How cheeky of Treehugger to include a photo of Bauhaus [the band] at the bottom of this article. I’m sure they’ve managed to confuse at least one or two non-design readers, causing them to think that Walter Gropius and his boys were goth all along. Wo ist mein crimper, Breuer?!
[photo: 1925 Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/JEVcJTTe648xtal1D9y1QyDm_500.jpg)
Bauhaus Launches Award For Social Housing
How cheeky of Treehugger to include a photo of Bauhaus [the band] at the bottom of this article. I’m sure they’ve managed to confuse at least one or two non-design readers, causing them to think that Walter Gropius and his boys were goth all along. Wo ist mein crimper, Breuer?!
[photo: 1925 Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany]
