Available at Amazon.com, Kevin Matthews. Photo, Exterior   AW FREE TRIAL IMAGE at ArchitectureWeek Its intellectuals believed that the political irrationalism had led to the violence, and a critical rationalism had to be imposed in order to resolve the social conflict. Under the leadership of Gropius, the Bauhaus movement made no special distinction between the applied and fine arts. Gropius expressed his form-follows-function ideals with the factory’s large windows, which are meant to bring in natural light to workers. He began in the glass painting workshop and taught furniture design, drawing and lettering. Ad Choices, The acclaimed movement originated in the city of Dessau. His most famous work of the Bauhaus era is a glass painting from 1928, City. https://www.history.com/topics/art-history/bauhaus. Instruction focused less on function (like so many Bauhaus offerings) and more on abstraction. All were made with an “affection” for the details, all with the intention that the function be easily recognised from the outside. — Darlene Levy. Painter Wassily Kandinsky began teaching in 1922. Surrealist painters Joan Miró and Andre Masson credit Klee as a major influence on their work. This base has an optical effect, as it gives the impression of the building being much lighter. These austere aesthetics favored function and mass production, and were influential in the worldwide redesign of everyday buildings that did not hint at any class structure or hierarchy. Phaidon. Bauhaus building Dessau from north-west, architecture: Walter Gropius / photo: Lucia Moholy, 1926. Often mentioned as the most important textile artist of the 20th century, her efforts entered the realm of abstract art with her wall hangings—she even created new textiles. The seven years of the Bauhaus in Dessau (1925–1932) are regarded as the heyday of the Bauhaus architecture. It was born from the merging of the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Arts and Crafts, in an attempt to overcome the existing divorce between art and industrial production on one hand, and art and crafts on the other. The next was the interior drainage, and lastly they did not use gravel drainage, so that the sun radiated directly onto the layers of tar, deforming the layers as there were no expansion joints. In 1928, Swiss architect Hannes Mayer took over from Gropius, but his tenure was a troubled one, with student-teacher ratios becoming a big problem for the school and various disputes with Communist students and anti-Communist faculty members. Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy arrived at the school in 1923 to teach preliminary classes and run a metal workshop, but his real passion was for photography.