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Bauhaus

//ˈbaʊhaʊs// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 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. also, attributive

    "[J]une 22 unanimous approval of the projected bauhaus building, the first of the bauhaus books appears."

Noun
  1. 1
    a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918 wordnet

Etymology

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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