Bauhaus School

Bauhaus, is known as 'the cradle of modern design' and made European modernism design movement to an unprecedented height, finally in the second world war development into a new design style, modern design, international socialist style. It was founded from 1919, and forcibly closed in 1933, has a profound influence in the history of modern design education system establishment and the development during 14 years.

In 1919, Bauhaus school established in Weimar is a design university with architecture primarily and including textile, ceramic, metal, glass, printing, stage art and murals many other professional design. Its purpose is to create an artistic and technical standards in the education environment, and develop the suitable for mechanical age ideal modern design talent, create a new kind of design education mode.

In 1925, Bauhaus moved, started its new mature development period. In the local government's support, Walter Gropius(the first president of Bauhaus) designed  a multi-functional, comprehensive completion of the new school. In the design, Gropius using a very simple form and modern materials, processing method, highly stressed functionalization principle, the whole building without any decoration. It become the 1920 s best masterpiece in modernistic design, modern architectural history has a milestone in the twentieth century,  has produced profound influence in modern architectural design.

 The Bauhaus' teachers and students do a large number of design product in the teaching and learning process, many design with its typical modernist features lead the design area, it make the Bauhaus become the international center in modern design.

Although the history of Bauhaus only had 14 years, but it has an indelible contribution in modernism movement's  development, the establishment of the modernist design features and modern socialist education system , it is an important milestone in modernistic design, it has enormous and far-reaching influence.