Bauhaus in Dessau

An icon of Modernism that reflects the principles of the fusion between art, technology and functionality.

The Bauhaus building is a point of reference for German rationalism. It is likely that Gropius was influenced by Soviet constructivism, which was quite influential in modern architecture and industrial design at the time. It developed respecting the urban fabric in which it was inserted, opening up towards the city with enormous curtain walls that responded to the need to give light to the laboratories but which also had an “ideological aspect”: in a democratic community “the houses are made of glass”, nothing is hidden, everything communicates, and the school is the generating nucleus, the model of the democratic community” 

The L-shaped building is conceived as a slow rotation of volumes, a “form in formation”, regulated by an “inertia mass”: the building of the dwelling-studios, a place of rest, following the principle of the machine determining space and forms.