The Bauhaus was a school of art, design, and architecture founded in Weimar, Germany, with the primary goal of "reimagining the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts.” Before the creation of the Bauhaus, fine arts were considered more valued than crafts. The Bauhaus aimed to change this feeling about the arts. The Bauhaus wanted to create products with a simple design that could thus be easily mass-produced. Of all the principles taught at the Bauhaus, form follows function summed up the main philosophy of the school. Architecture and design must reflect the new period of history and adapt to the machine age, said one of the founding directors of the Bauhaus school. Students began with a preliminary course that taught basic Bauhaus theory and then were allowed to participate in specialized workshops. Over the years it moved to Dessau and then to Berlin and was finally closed by Nazi soldiers. Through its existence, the Bauhaus had a major impact on trends in art, design, and architecture throughout the rest of the century. The Bauhaus ideology was conceived when Walter Gropius, a German architect, sought to unify the arts. by craftsmanship. Gropius wanted to end the division between industry and art by training students equally in crafts and fine arts. In 1919, the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts merged to form what is known as the Bauhaus, or “building house.” Walter Gropius was appointed director and described the school as "a utopian craft corporation combining architecture, sculpture and painting into a single creative expression" in his Proclamation of the Bauhaus. Gropius quickly developed a program in which he combined ...... middle of paper ...... this unit to mass produce products and beautiful art earned him the right to be known as House of Construction. Works Cited Bayer, Herbert, Walter Gropius and Ise Gropius. Bauhaus, 1919-1928. Boston: Charles T. Branford, 1952. Print. Neumann, Eckhard. Bauhaus and Bauhaus people; Personal opinions and recollections of former Bauhaus members and their contemporaries. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970. Print. Whitford, Frank. Bauhaus. London: Thames and Hudson, 1984. Print. “Bauhaus”. Encyclopedia Britannica (2013): Search Starters. Internet. May 1, 2014. “The three Bauhaus sites”. History of graphic design. Np, and Web. May 5, 2014..Winton, Alexandra G. “The Bauhaus, 1919-1933.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Internet. May 3 2014..