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Crafting the Cold War: Berlin's Bauhaus Legacy
In 1949, the Bauhaus was officially dissolved, but its legacy would shape a divided Berlin in surprising ways. This episode goes beyond the school's Weimar and Dessau years to explore how Bauhaus ideas—clean lines, functional design, social purpose—survived persecution, exile, and the Cold War's ideological battles. Lucas and Luna follow the thread from Walter Gropius's exile to America, where the Bauhaus influenced corporate architecture, and then trace how both East and West Germany claimed the movement as their own. They visit the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, examine the…
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