Bauhaus

Meaning

1. A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969).

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