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Bauhaus: The German School That Redesigned the World
In 1919, an architect named Walter Gropius founded a radical art school in Weimar. The Bauhaus would go on to shape everything from skyscrapers to Ikea furniture, but its journey was anything but smooth. This episode follows the school's turbulent path through Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin, its encounters with Nazi hostility, and its exile that spread its ideas across the globe. We meet key figures like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. We explore the iconic buildings—the Dessau campus, the Fagus Factory—and the political battles that forced the…
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