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The Bauhaus Revolution: Design, Politics, and Exile
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the story of the Bauhaus, the most influential art and design school of the 20th century, founded in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius. They trace its journey through three German cities—Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin—and its clash with rising Nazi power. The conversation covers key figures like Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and the school's move to Dessau in 1925. Lucas explains the Bauhaus philosophy of merging art, craft, and technology, and how the school's functionalist aesthetic, from the Fagus factory to…
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