Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as means of artistic design on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The use of artistic instruments is thus radically reformed. The Hungarian artist mak...

In his third and last contribution within the Bauhausbucher series, the founder and long-standing director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, gives a comprehensive overview of the Bauhaus in Dessau. In addition to a brief outline of the origins and deve...

Although he was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Albert Gleizes dedicated his influential essay on Cubism to the art school. In 1928, the editors Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Walter Gropius included this essay as volume 13 in the Bauhausbucher seri...

Dutch architect and designer J. J. P. Oud participated in the Bauhaus Week and the International Architecture Exhibition. His writing, beginning with a personal confession, is a summary of theoretical and practical findings in the field of architectu...

Published in 1929, From Material to Architecture contains the main features of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's teaching program at the Bauhaus. With its focus on the preliminary course, this last book of the 14-volume series explains how students "develop towar...

Kasimir Malevich s treatise on Suprematism was included in the Bauhausbucher series in 1927, as was Piet Mondrian's reflections on Russian Constructivism in 1925 (New Design, Bauhausbucher 5). Like Mondrian, who was never an official member of the Ba...

"Point and Line to Plane" can be seen as a continuation of Wassily Kandinsky's seminal treatise "On the Spiritual in Art". Kandinsky's thesis is that different constellations of point, line and surface have different emotional effects on the viewer....