Tag: Walter Gropius

  • Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus

    One hundred years since the founding of the Bauhaus school, this exhibition considers how it influenced the UK’s cultural scene, from film to music and performance art to hairstyles

  • Netherlands ⇄ Bauhaus: Pioneers of a New World

    This show celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, guiding you through the fascinating history of a movement that still has enduring relevance

  • Ida Kerkovius: “Meine Welt ist die Farbe” (“My world is colour”)

    Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany 2 February – 27 April 2014

  • Bauhaus: Art as Life

    Barbican Art Gallery, London 3 May–12 August 2012

  • Book review: The revision of the modern: seeking the real narrative

    Sadly, this important study was published just before the author’s untimely death earlier this year. Paul Overy was a well-recognised author dealing with 20th-century art and architecture

  • Bauhaus: 1919-1933

    The complete building is the final aim of the visual arts. Their noblest function was once the decoration of buildings. They were inseparable parts of the great art of building. Today, they exist in isolation, from which they can be…

  • Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban

    Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London 22 February-13 May 2007 A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely. It is now almost ten years since the major exhibition was organised in New York…

  • Lawn Road Flats

    There is a beautiful film called ‘England: Home and Beauty’ that is a testament to the glamour of the 1920s and 1930s. In it, young elegant women wearing long, sleek evening dresses arrive home late at night, alighting from their…