
Saturday Read: Gropius and the Bauhaus
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius. Take a look at this New Yorker piece by Dan Chiasson reviewing Fiona MacCarthy’s just published…

WashPost on the Bauhaus of Tel Aviv
The Washington Post travel section this weekend had a nice feature on the Bauhaus architecture of Tel Aviv. I just wished the piece in the paper and online had more images of the buildings. (You can…

Modern Snapshot: Bauhaus WTOP Transmitter Station in Wheaton
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by Michael Shapiro
I have driven by the WTOP Transmitter Building in Wheaton too many times to count. Always rushing somewhere, I never actually got out of the car to take a look and take a picture of this Bauhaus building…

Exhibit: The Bauhaus in Print
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by Michael Shapiro
How did the Bauhaus, which existed for only 15 years, have such an impact on modern design and thinking? The National Gallery of Art explores this question in Publishing Modernism: The Bauhaus in…