Bauhaus
pronunciation
How to pronounce Bauhaus in British English:
UK [ˈbaʊhaʊs]
How to pronounce Bauhaus in American English:
US [ˈbaʊˌhaʊs]
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- Noun:
- a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918
Word Origin
- Bauhaus (n.)
- 1923, from German Bauhaus, literally "architecture-house;" school of design founded in Weimar, Germany, 1919 by Walter Gropius (1883-1969), later extended to the principles it embodied. First element is bau "building, construction, structure," from Old High German buan "to dwell" (see bound (adj.2)). For second element, see house (n.).
Example
- 1. Did bauhaus artists develop a utopian theory of the commodity ?
- 2. Weimar and dessau bauhaus and its sites in .
- 3. One was the influence of the european modernist movement , led by bauhaus architects in germany and le corbusier in france .
- 4. Bauhaus and its sites in weimar and dessau .
- 5. He likened his work to architecture : fitting the hair to the bone structure , citing the stark geometric forms of the bauhaus school as his inspiration .