No art movement in history has impacted the world of products quite like the Bauhaus. Founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, the school’s original manifesto proposed a ...

1. Elective Affinities: England and Germany -- 2. 'A simpler and more cordial accent': Walter Gropius -- 3. T̀he habitability of the whole': Marcel Breuer -- 4. T̀hat lovely madman': Laszlo ...

Mention “Bauhaus” at a cocktail party and you’re likely to conjure visions of chrome-plated tubular steel chairs, charming teapots or a certain ubiquitous sans serif typeface. For others, the word ...

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents His unlikely diagnosis came in response to the regional conservative CDU government’s “think modern” campaign, ...

“The motor car has completely overturned our old ideas of town planning,” said Le Corbusier. “If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with ...

The sleek smartphone you may be holding in your hand. The elegant tubular metal chair you’d love to buy but can’t afford. The glass-sheathed building you admire or despise. All these things reflect ...