walter gropius · 1926

school building

the Bauhaus building in Dessau has three wings joined like a pinwheel, so there is no front and no back. the workshop wing is a glass curtain wall hung in front of the structure. the grid of the glass is the grid of the whole building.

draw it in the form lab lesson: type on the grid

the shapes inside

a glass gridthe curtain wall, square by square.

three wingsjoined at angles, no front, no back.

a bridgeone wing spans the road.

facts

1926made

gropiusdesigner

3shapes

see it in the app, with the parts you can tap.

open it in the app the workshops at the school