Bauhaus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). 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). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbaʊhaʊs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/ Hyphenation: Bau‧haus === Proper noun === Bauhaus (architecture, design, also attributively) A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design. ==== Derived terms ==== Bauhausian ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Bauhaus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == German == === Etymology === From bauen (“to build”) +‎ Haus (“house”). === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Bauhaus n (proper noun, strong, genitive Bauhauses) (architecture, design) Bauhaus