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Article: The Bauhaus and America: First Contacts, 1919-1936.(Review)
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- July 1, 2000
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The Bauhaus and America: First Contacts, 1919-1936 By Margret Kentgens-Craig Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 283 pages, 51 b&w illustrations, $40.
After the 14-year-old Bauhaus was closed in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe in 1933, many of its key people, including Gropius, Breuer, and Mies himself, came sooner or later to the United States. Here is a record of their influence and assimilation in America. Some parts of the story--Gropius and Breuer's teaching and practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mies in Chicago, Josef and Anni Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, ...