Here at RECORD, we wondered how we should celebrate the 100th birthday of something that actually died at the tender age of 14. That would be the Bauhaus, of course—a misunderstood institution, born in 1919, that shifted its focus over the course of its short life each time the leadership changed, from Walter Gropius to Hannes Meyer to Mies van der Rohe, who was in charge when the Nazis shut it down for good in 1933.
The major misperception about the Bauhaus is that it is a style. You may love the look (more than the comfort) of the Wassily chair, named by Marcel Breuer for his Bauhaus colleague Wassily Kandinsky, but the Bauhaus was a school, and it varied more than is recognized from one particular expression.
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