The Bauhaus reassessed: sources and design theory

Contents

pt. I. Sources. Educational theory -- Craft and industry -- The Werkbund -- pt. II. The Bauhaus in Weimar. War and revolution -- The cathedral of socialism -- The workshops -- Johannes Itten and the basic course -- Claims for art : Kandinsky and Klee; Van Doesburg and Moholy-Nagy -- Crisis and consolidation -- pt. III. The Bauhaus in Dessau. Dessau : the great transformation -- Dessau and architecture -- From workshop to laboratory -- Hannes Meyer : formalism or functionalism? -- Confrontation and collapse.