Bauhaus

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.

Origin

• Borrowed from German Bauhaus ("house of architecture"), from Bau + Haus. 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).