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John Ronan, FAIA, is principal of John Ronan Architects in Chicago and professor at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
"The Bauhaus is the Keith Richards of design schools," writes John Ronan. "Influential, legendary, and stubbornly refusing to die." In this essay, the Chicago-based architect asks why we are still talking about the Bauhaus—and why no design school in the intervening century has superseded its influence.