By Walter Gropius
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Bauhaus architecture in Berlin
Explore Bauhaus through Bauhaus Archiv-Museum and Horseshoe settlement. Compare the buildings and architects in our Berlin collection, then follow another local theme or discover this architecture in other cities.
2 buildings in this collection
Selected Bauhaus buildings in Berlin
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By Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner
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The local context
Bauhaus in Berlin
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.
Beyond this collection
Put the buildings in context
Read the general Bauhaus guide for architectural context and examples from other cities. For a broader view of Berlin, explore the city’s other buildings and architectural themes.
Bauhaus in other cities
Continue exploring this architecture elsewhere. Each count refers to buildings tagged Bauhaus in Vandelay.
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Germany Dessau-Roßlau
2 buildingsStart with Dessau Bauhaus.
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England London
1 buildingStart with Cohen House.
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Architects in this collection
Counts show their documented Bauhaus buildings in Berlin. The links open each architect’s wider collection.
More architecture in Berlin
Compare this collection with other themes represented in the city.
- Residential 8 buildings
- Functionalist 6 buildings
- Sacred 6 buildings
- Industrial 5 buildings
- Expressionist 5 buildings
- Neue Sachlichkeit 4 buildings
- Futurist 3 buildings
- Deconstructivist 3 buildings
- Contextual Integration 2 buildings
- Stalinist 2 buildings
- Adaptive reuse 2 buildings
- Green architecture 2 buildings
- Postmodernist 2 buildings
- Facility 1 building
- Heimatstil 1 building
- Neues Bauen 1 building
- Nazi neoclassicism 1 building
- Jugendstil 1 building
- Gründerzeit 1 building
- Historicist 1 building
- Socialist Classicism 1 building
- Private House 1 building
- Neoclassicist 1 building
- Art Nouveau 1 building
- High-tech 1 building
- Organic architecture 1 building
Before you explore
- What does this collection cover?
- Vandelay currently documents 2 buildings tagged Bauhaus in Berlin. These counts describe our selected catalogue, not a complete inventory. A building can appear under more than one architectural theme.
- Can I visit these buildings?
- Inclusion in the collection does not mean that a building’s interior is open to visitors. Check the venue’s official website for current access, opening hours and booking requirements.
- What does the app add?
- Use the map to find documented buildings, open their stories and photo galleries, and see nearby places with live distances in AR. This page offers examples and context; it is not a fixed walking itinerary.
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