BAUHAUS ARCHITECTURE MODELS

The Bauhaus didn't emerge from nowhere. Peter Behrens laid the groundwork in the first decade of the twentieth century — first at his own house in the Darmstadt artists' colony (1901), then at the AEG Turbine Factory in Berlin (1909), where industrial architecture first achieved the clarity and formal discipline that the Bauhaus would later codify. Walter Gropius worked in Behrens's office. So did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. So did Le Corbusier.

Gropius took what he'd learned directly into the Fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine (1911–13), where the structural frame retreats behind continuous glass curtain walls for the first time in architectural history. It is a building that still looks extraordinary today. When Gropius founded the Bauhaus school in 1919 and designed its Dessau building in 1925, he was extending a set of ideas already more than a decade in development — ideas about honesty of structure, the rejection of applied ornament, and the complete integration of art and industrial production.

The Moller House in Vienna (1928), designed by Adolf Loos, belongs to the same intellectual moment: spare, rational, and entirely committed to the proposition that a building's exterior should be an expression of its interior logic.

All five buildings are represented here. If you'd like to read more about their connections and context, our Bauhaus architecture guide covers the full story.

Each model is cast in fine plaster and finished by hand in our West Sussex studio.