Bauhaus
School founded in 1919 in Weimar by Walter Gropius. Its aim was to unify again the individual artistic domains and connect them with the construction techniques. The visual arts and architecture should be studied and applied as closely bound activities, whereas any discrimination in structural and decorative arts was seen as unacceptable. Students were followig two parallel courses (the study of materials and techniques and form in the laboratory), while one of the key principles was to be taught a sorte of design suitable for mechanical reproduction. Often, the students and colleagues were dealing with the construction of original objects that served as models for mass production. Feininger, Kandinsky, Klee, Slemer, Broyer etc. were among the teaching staff. In 1925 the institution moved to Dessau, in a building (Gropius’s work) that was also a "condensation" of school’s principales. In 1928, Mies van der Rohe succeeded Gropius as Director. In 1933 when the Nazis put an end to the activities of Bauhaus by ordering its closure, many of its colleagues were forced to flee to United States. In 1937, in Chicago, was founded “New Bauhaus”, led by Moholy-Nagy. The developments in architecture and visual arts of 20th century were greatly influenced, if not decisively, by the principles and the ideas of Bauhaus.