Re: Bauhaus means...?

[rochow@pixelmagic.com]

>Bauhaus refers to the Bauhaus School of Design in Germany.
>One of the more well known architects was Walter Gropius.
>It was considered one of the first real "contemporary"
>schools of architecture and design.

I didn't realize this until recently, but the interesting all-rectangular 
look for small residential houses (as it can be seen in Gropius' house
near here in Concord, Massachusetts) translated into the many 
boring square featureless highrise buildings we can see all over the
US today. A pity, really. (On the other hand, I had a Bauhaus-inspired
bed as a child - all solid rectangular wood , measured 1m * 2 m 
exactly (a bit hard to find mattresses for :) (probably 50 cm high - never 
thought about measuring it before), quite neat.)

-gbr