Bauhaus

Bau·haus  (bouhous)

adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a 20th-century school of design, the aesthetic of which was influenced by and derived from techniques and materials employed especially in industrial fabrication and manufacture.

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[German, an architecture school founded by Walter Gropius : Bau, construction, architecture (from Middle High German b, building, from Old High German, from ban, to dwell, settle; see bheu- in Indo-European roots) + Haus, house (from Middle High German hs, from Old High German).]

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Bauhaus [ˈbaʊˌhaʊs]

n

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture)

a.  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

b.  (as modifier) Bauhaus wallpaper

[German, literally: building house]

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Bauhaus - a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918 architectural style, style of architecture, type of architecture - architecture as a kind of art form