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Published:  May 24, 2021 14:46 Richard Rose Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, 1927 Image Credit: Supplied Tom Wolfe was lucky. His passing will have allowed him to just miss out on the shower of celebrations for the centenary of the Bauhaus. In From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) the US author had written a ferocious outcry against the devotees of the famous German art school, held responsible for the concrete cubes at Sarcelles, New York or La Défense. And at the forefront of those accused, its founder, a certain Walter Grop...

In his Proclamation of the Bauhaus, German architect Walter Gropius paints the picture of unity between all artforms to build a new, prosperous world. This radical idea came at a time where Germany had lost its sense of identity and was left to total ruins from years of war. In Gropius’s mind, the only way to bring society back together was to rebuild it. The Bauhaus, which translates in English to “school of building,” was an avant-garde arts and crafts academy in Weimar which launched only six months after the end of World War I. Gropius built the curriculum around the sole idea of pr...