Dear Sophie -
The BAUHAUS was a famous school located in Dessau, Germany (southwest of Berlin) founded in 1919 for art, design, architecture and how all the arts integrate. Legendary artists and architects were directors of the school, teachers and students including Walter Gropius & Mies Van der Rohe. The thesis encouraged finding harmony between function and design. That mass production could be reconciled with technology AND craft.
Pressure from the Nazi regime challenged by the independent ideals of the BAUHAUS forced many of the faculty to emigrate to the United States where they sought teaching positions and re-established their lives and careers.
The Bauhaus is a concept that lives on!
With love,
Mom
(thanks j.k.)