Bauhaus
/ˈbaʊhaʊs/ name
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918 wordnet
Proper Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"[J]une 22 unanimous approval of the projected bauhaus building, the first of the bauhaus books appears."
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).