Etymology

Bauhaus

Bau·haus
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Today it means: A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design. Full definition →

German Bauhaus
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  1. German · borrowed fromBauhaus“house of architecture”
  2. English todayBauhaus

Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969).

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