The 20,000 visitors a day who came to the building that topped the Weissenhof hill to view the apartments designed by Mies van der Rohe would have seen not just a new kind of living space but also a new spiritual consciousness. From the exterior, the apartment...
Weissenhof Exhibition In 1927, the Nazis, ambitious for power and early simmering with racist hatred for all things un-German, didn’t know what to make of the shining white city on a hill in Stuttgart. So utterly alien to the fascists was the blinding bright...
When the mayor of Dessau, Fritz Hesse, asked the Bauhaus to take residence in his industrial city, part of his promise was not only land for the school but also a site for faculty housing. The city provided Burgkühnauer Allee, quite close to the school itself, in a...
The Dessau building of the Bauhaus displayed many controversial markers of modernist architecture, betraying liberal socialist thinking that would make it a doomed institution for the up and coming Nazis. The “Battle of the Bauhaus” had begun in Weimar when attacks by...
It was true that closing the Bauhaus was not the first political act by Hitler once he finally gained power in March of 1933. He opened concentration camps that month, stocked with political opponents, organized a day of boycotting Jewish goods, and then in April he...
