Berlin
Here the Bauhaus moves into the world. Berlin becomes a field of tension: politics, culture, industry. The method disperses and transforms.
Dessau
Here the Bauhaus becomes a system. Dessau organizes life: building, living, working as one coherent structure. The method takes form.
Weimar
Here the Bauhaus is built. Dessau shapes the method: structure, daily life, architecture as a coherent system. This is where the Bauhaus begins.
Dessau Bauhaus Journey
Travel to the place where Bauhaus moved from idea to life. In Dessau, architecture is experienced through movement, use and everyday space.
Where structure emerged
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DESIGN AS A SYSTEM
Dessau · Where it worked
After Weimar’s experimental beginning, Dessau is the chapter of implementation: a school built as a machine for learning, housing built as an industrial process, and public architecture that turns method into everyday reality.
From idea to infrastructure
In Dessau, Bauhaus stops being a promise — and becomes a functioning model across school, housing and civic life.
Bauhaus locations in Dessau
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Bauhaus Building Dessau
A built manifesto (1925–26): glass, concrete and circulation turned into an operating system for learning.
In Dessau, the school becomes architecture: workshops, studios and shared life organized for collaboration and production.
- Designed by Walter Gropius as a functional complex
- Workshops and interiors developed inside the Bauhaus itself
- Teaching becomes readable in space: movement, light, and workflow
Living
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Masters’ Houses
A cluster of living and working spaces (1926): private life, color, furniture and practice as one continuum.
Not villas, but prototypes of modern living: daily routines, interiors and artistic thinking aligned with Bauhaus method.
- Director’s House and semi-detached houses by Walter Gropius
- Associated with figures like Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Feininger, Muche, Schlemmer
- Interior color concepts and furnishings become part of the work
Museum
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Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Bauhaus in the 21st century (opened 2019): collection, evidence, and reflection — method made legible through objects.
The Dessau chapter is read through originals: prototypes, documents and material culture that reveal how the system worked.
- Home of the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau collection display
- Focus on process: experiments, standards, and everyday objects
- Contextual framing rather than nostalgia
Public
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Kornhaus
Functional architecture for public life (1930): an everyday place designed with Bauhaus clarity at the Elbe river.
Here, modern design is not a lecture — it is a social setting: terrace, rhythm, signage, and atmosphere for daily use.
- Designed by Carl Fieger (Bauhaus context), 1929–30
- Public leisure as a design problem
- Modernism becomes hospitality: light, views, and structure
Civic
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Employment Office
Architecture in public service (1928–29): rationalized movement and clarity of function for everyday administration.
A Bauhaus logic applied to the city: workflows, waiting, guidance — designed as a legible system rather than ornament.
- Competition-winning design by Walter Gropius (with Carl Fieger in his office)
- Public-facing functions organized for efficient circulation
- Modernism as civic infrastructure
Housing
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Laubenganghäuser
Social housing as system solution (1929–30): access galleries, repetition and economy — built for real need.
The shift is visible: from the single experiment to scalable housing logic — rational, collective and socially oriented.
- Designed under Hannes Meyer with the Bauhaus building department
- Gallery access as spatial efficiency
- Architecture tuned to “need” rather than luxury
Estate
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Dessau-Törten Estate
Industrialized housing construction (1926–28): standardized row houses as an experiment in affordability and production.
This is Bauhaus thinking at scale: modularity, speed and cost — housing as an industrial process with human consequences.
- Planned and built by Walter Gropius’ office as a trial estate
- Standardization as a response to housing shortage
- Urban infrastructure becomes part of the modern image
Prototype
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Steel House
Material experiment & prefabrication (1926–27): a prototype exploring dry construction and industrial skin.
The ambition is clear: build faster, lighter, and with repeatable parts — a laboratory for modern production methods.
- Developed by Georg Muche and Richard Paulick
- Prototype logic: industrial panels and assembly thinking
- A Bauhaus “test house” inside a real housing context
Culture
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Anhaltisches Theater
A multi-genre stage for the city: performance, music, and public culture as part of Dessau’s modern identity.
Dessau is not only buildings — it is a civic rhythm. Theater makes the social dimension visible: gathering, emotion, and form.
- Mehrspartentheater: drama, music theater, ballet, concerts
- A cultural counterpoint to housing and administration
- Public life as a designed experience
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