Girard, Xavier

Cl. New York, 2003

From 1919 to 1933,

Book ID: 65274

in Weimar, dessau and then Berlin, the Bauhaus (literally, "house of construction") was much more than just a professional school of a new genre - it was a modern Utopia. Painters, teaching specialists, architects, urban planners, artisans, engineers, actors, musicians, photographers and designers worked together there on a new concept of everyday life. An experimental style became dominant - bare, functional and scrupulously clear - the style of the 20th century.

80 pp., 60 color and B&W illus.