(German; " House of Building ")
(1919–33) Influential, forward-looking German school of architecture and applied arts.
It was founded by Arts and Crafts Movement 's emphasis on individually executed luxury objects. The Bauhaus is often associated with a severe but elegant geometric style carried out with great economy of means, though in fact the works produced by its members were richly diverse. Its faculty included Josef Albers , László Moholy-Nagy , Lyonel Feininger , Paul Klee , Vasily Kandinsky , and Marcel Breuer . The school was based in Weimar until 1925, Dessau through 1932, and Berlin in its final months, when its last director, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , closed the school in anticipation of the Nazis' doing so. See also {{link=International Style">International Style .