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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Bau•haus (bou′hous′),USA pronunciation n. - Architecturea school of design established in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius, moved to Dessau in 1926, and closed in 1933 as a result of Nazi hostility.
adj. - Architectureof or pertaining to the concepts, ideas, or styles developed at the Bauhaus, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on functional design in architecture and the applied arts.
- German, equivalent. to Bau- build, building + Haus house
- 1920–25
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Bauhaus /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/ n - a German school of architecture and applied arts founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius on experimental principles of functionalism and truth to materials. After being closed by the Nazis in 1933, its ideas were widely disseminated by its students and staff, including Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, Moholy-Nagy, and Mies van der Rohe
Etymology: 20th Century: German, literally: building house |