In 1919, a handful of architects, designers and craftsmen started the Bauhaus design school in Germany to change the world. They wanted to modernize architecture and product design by stripping away ...

The Bauhaus, a wildly influential design movement in 20th-century Europe, has new relevance in the 21st century: as a model for fighting climate change. The European Union has an ambitious new goal of ...

“How Bauhaus is your house?” The question is posed at the end of the animated short “Bauhaus: Design in a Nutshell.” I’d venture that most of our apartments and bedroom interiors include next to ...

Tubular-steel chairs are a regular accessory of modern life, so common that their design doesn't seem odd at all. Ditto built-in kitchens and forbidding high-rises. Bauhaus design already permeates ...

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 ...

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the first Bauhaus school opening in Weimar, Germany. Bauhaus—from 1919 to 1933—brought together arts, crafts, and industry with a focus on aesthetics and ...

S. R. Crown Hall, designed by the German Modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The Illinois Institute of Technology, well known for a collection of Mies ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nargess Banks covers the arts, with a focus on design and lifestyle. “The motor car has completely overturned our old ideas of ...

“So let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen, free of the divisive class pretensions that endeavored to raise a prideful barrier between craftsmen and artists!” -The Bauhaus Manifesto by ...

When you think of the Bauhaus, you probably think of buildings, objects and famous designers. What you don’t think of is a logo or corporate identity. And for good reason. Today, the Bauhaus is an ...