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Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany

Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany
The ideas of the German Bauhaus school of architecture and applied arts have greatly influenced the development of architecture and design in the 20th century. Founder Walter Gropius designed the unadorned, functional buildings for its quarters in Dessau in 1926.
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Modern Architecture; Gropius, Walter Adolph; Bauhaus
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