The Dessau Bauhaus (1925-1926) encapsulates the ethos of that design school's revolutionary new thinking. It is the model building of a pioneer institution. With its interlocking cubic forms, reinforced concrete frame and curtain walls of glass, it was the first large building to crystallise the Modern Movement's new conception of form and space. Designed by the school's founder, Walter Gropius, it gives vigorous expression to his ideal of a fusion of hand and intellect, with he technical school and library in one block and the workshops in a separate large block with spectacular glazed facades.
One of the most famous buildings of the Modern Movement, the Bauhaus in Dessau is distinguished not only by its adventurous use of modern materials but also by its symbolic resonances, joining as it does the world's of science and craft.
'Architecture In Detail' is a superbly photographed and technically informative series of monographs which embraces a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings, drawn predominantly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each sixty-page volume contains a lucid text by a respected author; a sequence of large-format, high-quality colour and black and white photographs; a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details; and a complete bibliography and chronology, thus making these books the definitive work on the subject. They are essential purchases for enthusiasts, practitioners and students alike.
