# Bauhaus
## English
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbaʊhaʊs/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/
* Hyphenation: Bau‧haus

### Proper noun

Bauhaus
* (architecture, design, also attributively) A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.
** 1968, 50 Years Bauhaus: German Exhibition; Royal Academy of Arts, September 21 – October 27 1968, Stuttgart: Württembergischer Kunstverein; Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →OCLC, page 26:[J]une 22 unanimous approval of the projected bauhaus building, the first of the bauhaus books appears.
** 1974, Barbara Ann Henriksen, The Bauhaus and American Art Education (unpublished M.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 17:Not until the 1930's was the American public aware of the significance of the Bauhaus. Several factors contributed to this: American Bauhaus students were returning from Germany; Bauhaus design, as tubular steel chairs and lighting fixtures, were being imported from Germany; […]
** 2004, Alan Bartram, Bauhaus, Modernism and the Illustrated Book, London: British Library, →ISBN, page 49, column 2:While the direct impact of the iconoclastic Bauhaus typography on bookwork is limited, its indirect influence, encouraging designers such as Jan Tschichold to re-examine the whole tradition of typography and its relationship to twentieth-century life, is difficult to overestimate.
** 2012 May 3, “Exhibition in focus: Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Art Gallery”, in The Daily Telegraph‎, London:The Bauhaus has long been celebrated as the most influential art school of the twentieth century. The word Bauhaus means many things to many people: some are inspired by so-called ‘Bauhaus style’ – from tubular-steel furniture to the strict geometry of primary-coloured triangles, circles and squares; others worship its position as one of the greatest emblems of the Modern movement’s ambitious desire to change the world.
** 2017 July 3, Michael Faulhaber, David Rising, “Ice Age Art, Bauhaus Buildings Highlight German UNESCO Hopes”, in U.S. News & World Report‎, [Washington, D.C.]:Two sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years – caves with art dating to the Ice Age and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago – highlight Germany's submissions for the prestigious World Heritage Site designation by the U.N.'s cultural agency, UNESCO. […] The Bauhaus buildings in northeastern Germany were designed by the school's second director, Hannes Meyer.

#### Derived terms

* Bauhausian

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ From the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
* ↑ “Bauhaus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* Bauhaus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## German
### Etymology

From bauen (“to build”) +‎ Haus (“house”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Bauhaus n (proper noun, strong, genitive Bauhauses)
* (architecture, design) Bauhaus