Berlin's 2 Bauhaus buildings connect the city to the school that defined 20th-century design education. The Horseshoe Settlement by Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner — a sweeping crescent of workers' housing — applied Bauhaus principles of standardisation, colour theory, and social purpose to residential architecture at urban scale. Walter Gropius's Bauhaus Archiv-Museum, designed by the school's founder, was intended to house the movement's legacy in a building that embodied its principles: clean geometry, white surfaces, and a sawtooth roof that floods the galleries with north light.
Together, these buildings represent Bauhaus ideology applied to its two essential programmes: housing for the many and a museum for the ideas that made it possible.
