Bauhaus: A Selective Bibliography

Compiled and updated by Aileen Smith, November 2010

This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to
the Bauhaus. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark.


Books (Alphabetically by title)

ABCs of [triangle square circle]: the Bauhaus and design theory / edited by Ellen
Lupton and J Abbott Miller London: Thames and Hudson, 2006
ISBN 9780500277140
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) LUP

Albers and Moholy-Nagy: from the Bauhaus to the new world / edited by Achim
Borchardt- Hume London: Tate Publishing, 2006 ISBN 1864376381
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43)(73) BOR

Archaeology of modernism: renovation Bauhaus Dessau / Monika Markgraf
Berlin: J ovis Verlag, 2007 ISBN 9783936314830
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43D):92BAU MAR

Bauhaus / Dennis Sharp London: Visual Publications, 1970
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) SHA

Bauhaus / Hans M Wingler Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) WIN (REF-LO)

Bauhaus 1919 1928 / edited by Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius and Ise Gropius
London: Allen and Unwin, 1939
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43) BAY

Bauhaus 1919-1933 / Bauhaus Archiv, Magdalena Droste Koln: Taschen, 1998
ISBN 3822876275
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) DRO

Bauhaus 1919-1933: reform and avant-garde / Magdalena Droste Koln:
Taschen, 2006 ISBN 9783822836491
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) DRO

Bauhaus 1919-1933: workshops for modernity / Barry Bergdoll, Leah Dickerman
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009 ISBN 9780870707582
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) BER



Bauhaus: a conceptual model / Bauhaus Archiv Berlin, Museum fur Gestaltung,
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stiftung Weimar, in cooperation with the
Museum of Modern Art, New York Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009
ISBN 9783775724159
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) BAU

Bauhaus and America: first contacts 1919-1936 / Margret Kentgens-Craig
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999 ISBN 026211237X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73) KEN

Bauhaus and Bauhaus people: personal opinions and recollections of former
Bauhaus members and their contemporaries / Eckhard Neumann New York:
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993 ISBN 9780442012793
AA SHELFMARK: PROCESSI NG

Bauhaus construct: fashioning identity, discourse and modernism / edited by
J effrey Saletnik and Robin Schuldenfrei London: Routledge, 2009
ISBN 9780415778367
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) SAL

Bauhaus Dessau: architecture, design, concept / Kirsten Baumann Berlin: J ovis
Verlag, 2007 ISBN 9783939633112
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43D):92BAU BAU

Bauhaus, Dessau, Walter Gropius / Dennis Sharp London: Phaidon Press, 1993
(Architecture in Detail)
AA SHELFMARK: 69.02:727.4:72(43D):92GRO SHA

Bauhaus Group: six masters of modernism / Nicholas Fox Weber New York:
Knopf, 2009 ISBN9780307268365
AA SHELFMARK: ON ORDER

Bauhaus idea and Bauhaus politics / Eva Forgacs Budapest ; London ; New
York : Central European University Press, 1995 ISBN 9781858660127
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) FOR

Bauhaus: masters and students by themselves / Frank Whitford London:
Conran Octopus, 1992
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) WHI

Bauhaus Tel Aviv: an architectural guide / Nahoum Cohen London: Batsford,
2003 ISBN 0713487925
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(569.4) COH

Bauhaus Twenty 21: an ongoing legacy / Gordon Watkinson
Basel: Birkhauser, 2009 ISBN 9783034600545
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43D):92BAU WAT




Bauhaus Weimar 1919-1925 / Christian Schadlich Weimar: Tradition un
Gegenwart, Heft 35, 1979
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) SCH

Bauhausbauten Dessau / Walter Gropius Mainz: Florian Kupferberg Verlag,
1974
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43) GRO (REF-LO)

Bauhausbauten in Dessau / Christine Engelmann and Christian Schadlich
Berlin: Verlag fur Bauwesen, 1991
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43D) ENG (GALL)

Buhne im Bauhaus / Walter Gropius Munich: Langen Verlag, 1924
(Bauhauserbucher, 4)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43):725.82 GRO (REF-LO)

Concepts of the Bauhaus: the Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection, exhibition
held in 1971 / J ohn David Farmer and Geraldine Weiss Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1971
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) FAR

Design 1920s: German design and the Bauhaus 1925-32 / Open University
Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1975
AA SHELFMARK: 7.05(43) OPE

Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus / J ohannes Itten
London: Thames and Hudson, 1975
AA SHELFMARK: 72.011:378.97 ITT

Dessau Bauhaus building 1926-1999 / Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Margret
Kentgens-Craig editors Basel: Birkhauser, 1998 ISBN 3764352906
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) KEN

Fagus: industrial culture from Werkbund to Bauhaus / Annemarie J aeggi
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000 ISBN 1568981759
AA SHELFMARK: 725.4.036(43):72.036 J AE

Fifty years Bauhaus / Royal Academy of Arts London: Royal Academy, 1968
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) ROY

Form and detail: Henry van de Veldes Bauhaus in Weimar / Kari J ormakka
Weimar: Universitatsverlag Weimar der Bauhaus-Universitat, 1997
ISBN 3860680757
AA SHELFMARK: 72.011(493):92VEL J OR





From Schinkel to the Bauhaus: five lectures on the growth of modern German
architecture / J ulius Posener (Architectural Association Paper,5)
London: Lund Humphries, 1972
AA SHELFMARK: 72.035/ 6(43) POS

Glass in modern architecture of the Bauhaus period / Arthur Korn New York:
Braziller, 1968
AA SHELFMARK: 729.8 KOR

Graphic work from the Bauhaus / edited by Hans M Wingler London: Lund
Humphries, 1969
AA SHELFMARK: 74/ 76(43) WIN

Gropius: an illustrated biography of the creator of the Bauhaus / Reginald Isaacs
Boston: Little Brown, 1991
AA SHELFMARK: 7.2036(43):92GRO ISA

Inside the Bauhaus / Howard Dearstyne London: Architectural Press, 1986
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43) DEA

International architektur / Walter Gropius Munich: Langen, 1925
(Bauhauserbucher, 1)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 GRO (REF-LO)

Inventing American Modernism: J oseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the
Bauhaus legacy at Harvard / J ill E Pearlman Charlottesville ; London:
University of Virginia Press, 2007 ISBN 9780813926025
AA SHELFMARK: 72:37(73) PER

J osef Albers: to open eyes: the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale /
Frederick A Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz London: Phaidon, 2006
ISBN 071484599X
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036:92ALB HOR

Kandinskys teaching at the Bauhaus: color theory and analytical drawings / Clark
V Poling New York: Rizzoli, 1986
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43):92KAN POL

Kibbutz and Bauhaus: an architects way in a new land / Arieh Sharon
Stuttgart: Karl Kramer Verlag/Massada Publishing, 1976
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(569.4):92SHA SHA

Man: teaching notes from the Bauhaus / Oskar Schlemmer London: Lund
Humphries, 1971
AA SHELFMARK: 7.013 SCH




Modern architecture through case studies / Peter Blundell J ones Oxford:
Architectural Press, 2002 ISBN 0750638052 (includes The Bauhaus, Dessau
/ Walter Gropius)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(4)(73) BLU

New architecture and the Bauhaus / Walter Gropius New York: MoMA, 1936
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43):92GRO GRO (REF-LO)

New vision: fundamentals of Bauhaus design, painting, sculpture, and
architecture, with Abstract of an artist / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy New York:
Dover, 2005 ISBN 9780486436937
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) MOH

Notebooks vols 1+2 / Paul Klee London: Lund Humphries, 1964-1973
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43):92 KLE

Painters of the Bauhaus / Eberhard Roters London: Zwemmer, 1969
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43) ROT

Pedagogical sketchbook / Paul Klee London: Faber and Faber, 1968
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) KLE

Photography at the Bauhaus / edited by J eannine Fiedler London: Dirk Nishen
Publishing, 1990
AA SHELFMARK: 77:7.036(43) FIE

Staatliche Bauhaus: Weimar 1919-1923 / Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar:
Bauhausverlag, 1923
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43) STA (REF-LO)

Teaching at the Bauhaus / Rainer K Wick; with a text by Gabriele Diana Grawe
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000 ISBN 3776708014
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) WIC

Tempo, Tempo! : Bauhaus-Photomontagen von = the Bauhaus photomontages
of Marianne Brandt / Elizabeth Otto Berlin: J ovis Verlag, 2005
ISBN 9783936314557
AA SHELFMARK: 77:7.036(43) OTT

Theater of the Bauhaus / edited and with an introduction by Walter Gropius
Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961
AA SHELFMARK: 725.822:72.036(43) SCH






Walter Gropius and the creation of the Bauhaus in Weimar: the ideals and artistic
theories of its founding years / Marcel Franciscono Urbana, Ill.: University of
Illinois Press, 1971
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) FRA

Walter Gropius / Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany 1925-26 / Global Architecture 70
Tokyo: ADA Edita, 1994
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(43):92GRO GLO (MLC)

Weimar years: a culture cut short / J ohn Willett London: Thames and Hudson,
1984
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(43) WIL (GALL)



J ournal Articles (Chronologically by year and month)

2010
MoMA exhibition guides Bauhaus towards its place in the history of modernity /
article by J oseph Rykwert
in Architectural Review vol.227 no.1355 J anuary 2010 / p.22


2009
Bauhaus modern / article by Lucy M Maulsby
in J ournal of Architectural Education vol.63 no.1 October 2009 /
p.145-147

Bauhaus: a conceptual model / article by Daniel Miller
in Icon no.076 October 2009 / p. 169

Learning Modern (exhibition by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and
the Mies van der Rohe Society at the Illinois Institute of Techology on Bauhaus-
inflected works in contemporary art and design
in Architect (Washington, DC) vol.98 no.10 October 2009 /
p.50-51

Modell Bauhaus exhibition in Berlin / article by Claudia Fuchs
in Detail vol.49 no.9 September 2009 / p.874

Bauhaus in action film exhibition: the Dessau contribution to the Bauhaus
anniversary / article by Friedrike Meyer
in Bauwelt vol.100 no.31 August 14, 2009 / p.2



Bauhaus: a conceptual model exhibition: the big 90-year anniversary
retrospective in Berlin / article by Gernot Weckherlin
in Bauwelt vol.100 no.30 August 7, 2009 / p.2

Pumping up the drama; Architects: Theo Lorenz of the Architectural
Associations Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) / article by Amanda Birch
in Building Design no.1879 J uly 31, 2009 / p.16-17


2008
J osef Albers a legacy from the Bauhaus to the present day / article by Oliver
Barker
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.12 (459) December 2008 /
p.10-13 (text in J apanese+English)


2000
Setting the haus in order / article by Mark Irving (considers the Bauhaus school
in Dessau)
in Blueprint no.169 February 2000 / p.28-31


1998
Kandinskys Kleine Welten and utopian city plans / article by Karen Koehler
in Society of Architectural Historians J ournal vol.57 no. 4
December 1998 / p.432-447


1996
Bauhaus: lanima della modernita [Bauhaus: the spirit of modernity] / article by
Silvana Annicchiarico
in Modo vol.19 no. 175 November 1996 / p.84-85

The Bauhaus as cultural paradigm / article by Diana Periton
in J ournal of Architecture vol.1 no.3 Autumn 1996 / p.189-205

Bauhaus in America / article by Carol Burns
in Society of Architectural Historians J ournal vol.55 no.2 J une
1996 / p. 182-185






1991
Rebuilding Bauhaus history: Role player; Architects: Walter Gropius, and others
/ article by Dennis Sharp, and Christian Brensing
in Building Design no.1032 April 26, 1991 / p.28-31


1989
The new teaching of architecture is no teaching of style: Hannes Meyer as
architect and teacher at the Dessau Bauhaus
in Archithese vol.19 no5 September/ October 1989 / p.34-41
(text in German)


1983
The Bauhaus / article by Walter Gropius
in Architectural Education no.1 1983 / p.53-79

The education background to the Bauhaus / article by Anita Cross
in Design Studies vol. 4 no. 1 J anuary 1983 / p.43-52


1982
Bauhaus, Dessau; Architects: Walter Gropius
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.10 (145) October 1982 /
p.11-20 (text in J apanese+English)

The legacy of Walter Gropius / article by Richard G Stein
in Architectural Design vol.52 no.7/ 8 1982 / p.58-61

Colour at the Bauhaus / article by J ohn Gage
in AA Files vol.1 no.2 J uly 1982 / p.50-54


1981
The Bauhaus as youve never seen it; Architects: Walter Gropius / article by
J ohn Allen Burns and Deborah Stephens Burns
in AIA J ournal vol.70 no.8 J uly 1981 / p.54-59








1980
Bauhaus-Archive in Berlin; Architect: Walter Gropius
in Deutsche Bauzeitschrift vol.28 no.9 September 1980 / p.1295-
1296 (text in German, summary in English)

On the occasion of the opening of the Bauhaus-Archiv; Architects: Walter
Gropius / article by Frei Otto
in Bouw vol.35 no.12 J une 7, 1980 / p.63-65 (text in Dutch)

A small museum for a great idea; Architects: Walter Gropius / article by Hubert
Hoffman
in Bauforum vol.13 no.76 1980 / p.24-27 (text in German)


1978
A letter from a Bauhaus student / article by Helmut von Erffa
in Modo vol.2 no.15 December 1978 / p.33-35 (text in Italian,
summary in English)

Mies the man: his life in pre-war Berlin / article by Sandra Honey
in Building Design no.418 October 20, 1978 / p.25-27

1919: the way of the Bauhaus (and Gropius) / article by J ohn Barnett
in Architectes no.90 J uly/ August 1978 / p.18-22 (text in French)

The Bauhaus: between practice and theory / article by Claude Schnaidt
in Architecture Mouvement Continuite no.45 May 1978 / p. 17-19
(text in French)

Bauhaus / article by Karin Hirdina and others
in Casabella vol.42 no,.435 April 1978 / p. 17-45 (text in Italian,
summary in English)

Mies at the Bauhaus / article by Sandra Honey
in AAQ vol.10 no.1 1978 / p.51-59


1977
Bauhaus Dessau / article by Gerhard Krenz
in Arkitekten (Copenhagen) vol.79 no.10 May 24, 1977 /
p.185-189 (text in Danish)





1976
The myth of space in the Bauhaus school / article by Francois Cali
in Architecture no.400 (6) December 1976 / p.13-18 (text in
French, summary in English)

Bauhaus Archive in Berlin a project by Gropius now being built; Architects:
Walter Gropius and the Architects Collaborative
in Domus no.561 August 1976 / p.2-3 (text in Italian, summary in
English)


1974
A prophet without honor: the Bauhaus / article by Elizabeth G Miller
in Progressive Architecture vol.55 no. 7 J uly 1974 / p.58-59


1970
The Bauhaus: an idea whose time had come / article by H H Waechter
in American Institute of Architects J ournal J uly 1970/ p.18-24

The Bauhaus: special issue
in Controspazio April-May 1970 / whole issue


1969
Gropius, the Bauhaus and the future / article by J Pritchard
in Royal Society of Arts J ournal J anuary 1969 / p.75-94


1968
Bauhaus after fifty years / article by W Gropius
in Building September 27, 1968 / p.105-106

The lasting values of the Bauhaus / article by J Vidaurre J ofre
in Architectural Review September 1968 / p.192-194;
in Studio International September 1968 / p. 69-73;
in Design September 1968 / p.44-47

Memories of a Bauhaus student / article by G Adams
in Architectural Review September 1968 / p.192-194




The Bauhaus / article by M van Treeck and F Loyer
in Oeil no.162-163 1968 / p.14-23, 38


1967
Utopia revisited: the Bauhaus at Dessau forty years on / article by J M Fitch
in Architectural Review February 1967 / p.97-99


1966
The haus of the Bauhaus reconsidered / article by J F McCullough
in Progressive Architecture December 1966 / p. 160-166


1962
The legacy of the Bauhaus / article by H Brederdieck
in Art J ournal Fall 1962 / p.15-21


1958
Bauhaus theatre / article by O Schlemmer, L Moholy-Nagy, and others
in Aujourdhui Art & Architecture no.17 1958 / p.14-33


1957
Bauhaus: first phase / article by Helmut von Erffa
in Architectural Review August 1957 / p.103-105









Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian
December 2010