“Every child,” lamented Tom Wolfe in From Bauhaus to Our House of 1981, “goes to school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale distribution warehouse”. Had there ever been another place on earth, he also said of Bauhaus-influenced America, “where so many people of wealth and power paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested?” — The Guardian
Observer architecture critic, Rowan Moore, on the vast and enduring impact of the "short-lived but longlasting" Bauhaus movement—both the sympathetic and the averse.
The famed school celebrates the centenary of its original founding this year.
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We need to escape this anti-architecture narrative boxing the media does. There are good and bad versions of every movement. Every building has to be judged on its own merits. Guess what, Bauhaus was the most successful architectural movement of all time -- trying to reframe it as "hated" is meaningless.
media: "bauhaus adjacent, value engineered, developer grade architecture sucks. is bauhaus bad?"
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