Inside The Bauhaus

by Howard Dearstyne, David Spaeth (Editor)

The author, a Chicago architect who studied at the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1933, offers an insider's look at the Bauhaus movement, and discusses the courses, workshops, and teachers

288 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 1986

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this would be a dry, non-fiction book about the Bauhaus, but it turned out to be very engaging and moving. Dearstyne, having been a student at the Bauhaus, offers a very personal reflection on the history of the school. He talks of his own experiences being educated there and his impressions of the various instructors freely throughout the book, and it adds a certain endearing humanity to the history. Taking the reader from foundation of the school through its vicissitudes of changing locations and directors, and finally to the very end when it was shut down by the Nazis, Dearstyne weaves a surprisingly compelling and tangible story of the Bauhaus, and I emerged from the book as if I had known the directors and students myself, and lived through the ups and downs of the school with them.