At its centennial, the Bauhaus’s design legacy seems more present than ever, in spite of the fact that the famous German school of design lasted merely 14 years and enrolled fewer than 1,400 students. Known for its interdisciplinary focus, merging arts, crafts, industrial design, and architecture, its attention to scale went from a cream pitcher to a city plan. In its short life, it had three directors and three locations.
Founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, it moved to Dessau in 1925. When Gropius left in 1928, architect Hannes Meyer took over until 1930. At that point, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe moved the school to Berlin, where he led it until political pressure forced him to close it in 1933.
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