World in Spectacular Light: Bauhaus in Exile
Hal Foster, 5 December 2024
Why do architecture and furniture of a century ago still look new, while clothes, cars and even people appear so dated? How did modern design – clean lines, white walls, geometric volumes, open plans, glass and steel structures, flat roofs – get locked in? A great deal of the credit (or blame) goes to the Bauhaus, to its buildings, products and pedagogy, and to the propagation...