1926: Brave new Bauhaus world With Ayan Yuruk

In the eighth episode of our second season of “About Bauhaus”, we travel to Dessau in the year 1926. After leaving Weimar, the school was reopened there as the “State Bauhaus Dessau”. At last, the Bauhaus could shine with its own architecture: the school building was specially designed by Walter Gropius and fitted out by the workshops. Together with the residential houses for the families of the teaching staff – the so-called “Meisterhäuser” – this new Bauhaus world was now presented to the public.

But did all Bauhaus members really live entirely à la Bauhaus? Together with design expert Ayan Yuruk, we spend a day in the Dessau Bauhaus cosmos and explore architecture, furniture, colours and the significance of technology in interior design. We also take a look at the opening celebrations of 1926 and the importance of public relations for the Bauhaus’s idealistic programme.