“Bauhaus Style”? On Bauhaus Architecture and Modern Clichés With Isolde Kepler

The Bauhaus became particularly famous for its architecture – so famous, in fact, that today any building with white walls, a flat roof and ribbon windows is labelled “Bauhaus-style” architecture. Yet there were in fact quite different views on building at the Bauhaus. Even its three directors, all of them architects, differed significantly in this respect. But what actually defines Bauhaus architecture? And why was it considered so modern – indeed, downright radical – at the time?

Together with architect Isolde Kepler, we get to the bottom of Bauhaus architectural clichés, take a look at “curtains of glass”, at villas that resemble shoeboxes, and ask how functional modern building methods really were for their residents.