Example sentences for: bauhaus

How can you use “bauhaus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Eclipsed by the sober international style imposed by the Bauhaus in the 1920s — of which the Neue Nationalgalerie is a prime example — architect Hans Scharoun was at last able to indulge his taste for Expressionistic free-form structures.

  • At the corner of Potsdamer Straße, Bauhaus master Mies van der Rohe’s design for the Neue Nationalgalerie of 20th-century art (see page 76) is a square, glass-wall structure with a vast, black steel roof supported by eight massive steel columns.

  • Many of the artists associated with Bauhaus were, like Rodchenko, out to remake the world beginning with the appearance of material objects, but unlike him they did not feel the burden of responsibility toward a society in progress.

  • The Bauhaus design school introduced the idea that good design could be had by anyone; in the 1950s the Bauhaus aesthetic led to the American manufacture of such modernist (but still too pricey) classics as Charles Eames' lounge chair and ottoman and Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair.

  • Like the Bauhaus and other utopian schemes to redesign the world, however, it left a lasting and positive imprint on international taste.


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