Dessau-Roßlau's 2 Modernist buildings are both by Walter Gropius and form the core of the Bauhaus legacy. The Dessau Bauhaus — the school's iconic 1926 campus — established the visual vocabulary of Modernism itself: glass curtain walls, white rendered surfaces, flat roofs, asymmetric composition, and an open plan that connected workshops, classrooms, and student housing in a single flowing structure.
The Masters' House Kandinsky-Klee — one of the faculty residences Gropius designed adjacent to the school — applied the same principles at domestic scale. Cubic volumes, horizontal window bands, and the integration of studio space into living quarters made these houses manifestos for a new way of life. Together, these buildings are where Modernism moved from theory to built reality.
