The Bauhaus

The Bauhaus school in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin remains the most famous design school in history. Walter Gropius and its teachers — Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Breuer — united art, craft, and industry around a single idea: form follows function.

The school lasted only fourteen years before the Nazis forced it to close, but its graduates carried its methods across the world. Geometric sans serifs, asymmetric layouts, functional simplicity, and the very model of design education all trace back to the Bauhaus.