RECORD rounds up half a dozen new books exploring the Bauhaus from different angles.

RECORD rounds up three exploring different aspects of the Bauhaus.

Well timed for the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first biography of Walter Gropius (1883–1969) since Reginald Isaacs’s was translated from German and abbreviated in 1991.

Well before her marriage to Eero Saarinen in 1954, Aline was a cultural force and vigorous defender of modern architecture, at a time when much of America was dubious about contemporary design.

This leading 20th-century reformer and activist helped introduce the socially minded goals of European architects to America through her seminal 1934 book, Modern Housing.

The Bauhaus may have been short-lived in Germany, but its reach was long.

Founded in 1919, the world’s most famous design school had a short life but long legacy.