Bauhaus

In this context, the fate of the original Bauhaus, like the fate of the Weimar Republic, reminds us that individual genius, small group collaboration, and even the exquisite design of systems and tools will never be sufficient foundations for democracy. The Bauhaus was founded on the belief that the pleasure of art and technology, properly united, could defuse the tensions of politics and perhaps even replace them. But its struggles as an institution and the means of its demise tell us something different. They remind us that if we want to have the kind of society the Bauhaus fought for, not to mention the kind of beauty it brought into the world, we will need to embrace both the unity of art and technology and the agonistic struggles of democratic politics. Fred Turner, What Was The Bauhaus? And What Can It Teach Us Today?