English Explanatory Dictionary

Bauhaus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.

Pronunciation

/ˈbaʊhaʊs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bauhaus.wav /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/

Word forms

Bauhaus

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).

Derived words

Bauhausian
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