The tubular steel Adler bicycle he used to scoot around the Bauhaus campus back in Germany.
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He is married with one son, Bernd, who serves as a managing director at Bauhaus.
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Today, at age 90, with Gropius and his generation buried, the Bauhaus has outgrown all of that.
The former Hoechst headquarters, a redbrick relic of the 1920s, is an admired piece of Bauhaus architecture.
Now, the founder of German home improvement chain Bauhaus AG, Heinz-Georg Baus, also joins the billionaire ranks.
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It looked especially incongruous there, a piece of Deco art in a Bauhaus modern Silicon Valley Eichler home.
Personified by elegant Gropius and touted by hyperconnected Johnson, the Bauhaus became a ready standard-bearer for International Style architecture.
When he dedicated the Bauhaus to "building the future anew" in 1919, he did not specify a completion date.
Somewhat disingenuously (given his early socialist sympathies) Gropius successfully pitched the Bauhaus as an emblem of modern American liberalism.
Indeed were it not for the Bauhaus name, there would be nothing to hold these strains of modernism together.
It was Noyes, contends Bruce, who first carried the Bauhaus ideal beyond architecture.
Baus, a carpenter, opened the first Bauhaus store in Manheim, Germany in 1960.
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Baus, who shuns press interviews, lives in Zug, Switzerland, where Bauhaus is headquartered.
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Oswalt is determined that the Dessau school counteract historical ossification by applying "the Bauhaus approach" to addressing the world's ills.
An old house, like theirs, had been expanded by ripping off the rear wall and replacing it with a Bauhaus extension.
Born in 1910, Noyes trained as an architect at Harvard, where his teachers included Bauhaus masters Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.
The Bauhaus school, led by German architect Walter Gropius from 1919, worked to do away with the ornamentation and pretenses of bourgeois society.
Before him, Alexander McQueen spectacularly aced both the Bauhaus ballet meme and some genuinely startling things that one could actually wear on the street.
In my first year in Tongji, I became interested in the Bauhaus ideology, and wanted to change the world with the best product design.
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Most major practitioners now esteem the Bauhaus, in contrast with the postmodern architects of Venturi's era--an era that includes Michael Graves and Robert A. M.
This helps explain why German architect Philipp Oswalt, newly appointed director of the reopened Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, dismisses the old design solutions of the Bauhaus.
Mies considered the coining of Bauhaus to be Gropius' greatest achievement.
This became known as the International Style exhibition and set the stage for the landmark Bauhaus 1919-1928, curated by John McAndrew with Alfred Barr six years later.
What came to be known as the "Bauhaus diaspora" can readily be seen in New York City, where Mies designed the Seagram building and Breuer the Whitney Museum.
Ride south for about one-and-a-half kilometres and you will reach the Bauhaus-inspired facade of the Reading Power Station, iconic in its 1930s styling and its 150m-high chimney.
Over five decades Baus, 79, built Bauhaus AG (not to be confused with the design school or modernist architectural style) into a chain with 220 stores in 16 European countries.
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The Bauhaus with which I am more familiar is about embracing humanistic traits, and exercising them on a human scale so as to capture the 'spirit' that was being lost in the mechanization of processes.
After he bought the Calder and the Tomlin, Kirshenbaum wanted a piece by Josef Albers, a German-born Bauhaus artist who pioneered so-called color field painting, in which large blocks of color are spread across a canvas.
She moved to London to work the 'alt-folk' and singer-songwriter circuits, although in a fairly unfolky manner she's attracted the attention of Bauhaus's Peter Murphy and Mike Mason of Swallow (1990s 4AD act), who both speak highly of her.
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